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MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
... an eye-exam fee above the standard $46.17 set by MSP.[ 7 ] Fees over $90 for a full eye exam are not uncommon. ...
News September 2014
... pain or ability to bear weight has not improved in 5 to 7 days.  For the complete list of GPAC guidelines, visit ...
Premise / BY: Granger Avery, MD September 2014
... or better when compared to higher volume programs.[ 3,6,7 ] Equally important, there are no studies that document ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... treated with warfarin in routine clinical practice.[ 7 ] The large sample size of 125 195 subjects constituted ... stroke in the warfarin arms of the multinational RCTs are 7 to 9 times higher than the rate in the North American ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mariana Brussoni, PhD, October 2014
... which in turn are linked with higher mortality rates.[ 7 ] Of concern are age-related changes in physical and ... average, than younger male motorcyclists (9.9 days versus 7.0 days; z = 6.07, P < .001). Using the iDOT database, we ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC October 2014
... 200 CPO cases have been identified in BC over the last 7 years,[ 2 ] including clusters and transmissions within and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2014
... for smoking cessation have also been completed.[ 6-7 ] All studies found statistically significant reductions in ... school students who had tried e-cigarettes doubled from 4.7% to 10%.[ 15 ]  Going forward Carefully conducted studies ...
News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... when the impoverished nation was shattered by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that led to over 100 000 deaths. After the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... best practice guidelines for individual chronic diseases.[ 7,8 ] These guidelines are usually based on studies involving ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Horkoff, MD, FRCSC November 2014
... history of progressive dysphagia along with weight loss of 7.5 kilograms over the previous 6 months. A CT scan of the ... a total of 73 reported cases in the English literature.[ 7 ] The treatment of dysphagia as a result of cervical ... in the context of DISH is conservative or surgical.[ 7-9 ] Patients who have minimally bothersome symptoms should ...