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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... concluded that children who receive the vaccine are at a 4 to 12 times lower risk of suffering from zoster than those ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joanne Stares, MHSc, April 2014
... rather than factors related to latitude itself.[ 1,3,4 ] There are few reported cluster investigations of IBD, and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME April 2014
... porter, but is able to perform the sedentary job desk job. 4.    Your patient has submitted a WorkSafeBC claim for ... not from desk work that allows the leg to be elevated.  4.    (c) Treat your patient as is medically appropriate. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ramesh Saeedi, MD, PhD, May 2014
... by interfering with the fibrinolytic pathway.[ 3,4 ] There is considerable heterogeneity in the size and ... both of which are determined by the  LPA  gene.[ 1-4 ] Several studies have found an independent and continuous ... isoforms associated more strongly with risk of CAD.[ 1-4 ] Polymorphism in the LPA gene also influences Lp(a) levels ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC May 2014
... nodal status was seen in 29.3% of the CNB group versus 13.4% of the surgical group ( P <.001). Grade 2 and 3 disease were diagnosed in 69.4% of the CNB group versus 57.1% of the surgical group ( P ... (58.9%) were diagnosed using CNB, either image-guided (54.4%) or clinically-directed (4.5%), 837 cases (32.3%) were ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC May 2014
... Services Task Force, and the UK Health Protection Agency.[ 4-7 ] In British Columbia, the 4-year STOP HIV/AIDS initiative gave us an opportunity to ...
News May 2014
... or a computer screen (playing games or using the Internet) 4 years later. Researchers discovered striking differences ... of a screen compared with young women—an average of 4 more hours each week—and found the total number of hours ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sean Virani, MD, May 2014
... for Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health for the past 4 years. A number of the 21 SSC Quality and Innovation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... be reinstituted using adult GHD diagnostic criteria.[ 4 ] Survivors of pediatric brain tumors treated with cranial ... GHRT and re-evaluating following a trial of GHRT.[ 4 , 17 ] Thresholds decrease significantly for diagnosis of ... adolescence to adulthood should be less than 5 µg/L.[ 4,9 , 20 ] Thus, the accepted threshold for response to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... In British Columbia, 1% of the population has HF.[ 4-6 ] The mortality rate in patients with HF is high and the ... the opioid can be administered regularly (usually every 4 hours). The oral route is preferred to the subcutaneous ... the patient to 0.5 mg of oral hydromorphone every 4 hours regularly. The hourly PRN dose must remain for ...