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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2014
... moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, and this falls to 4% for kids aged 12 to 17. Missing from the report was a ... school kids to be active for 60 minutes per day for 4 weeks. We ask doctors from across the province to devote ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... 3 accreditation and the reason that we can't get to Level 4 is that the infrastructure from the government isn't there ...
Letters / BY: Ted Patterson, September 2014
... it is likely dictionaries will be reviewed every 3 to 4 years to keep up with emerging changes in technologies and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
... of visual impairment specifically in the DTES.[ 4 ] In this case series of 200 patients who used eye-care ... about attending tertiary health care facilities.[ 4 ]  In addition, the current government-funded ophthalmic ...
News / BY: Shannon Waters, MD, September 2014
... the patient more time is an investment in the care.”[ 4 ] We urge implementers of BC’s new HIV testing guidelines ...
Obituaries / BY: Gerard Ponsford, MBBS, September 2014
... PEI, where I’d been a missionary orthopaedic surgeon for 4 years. John was also a missionary, once removed, in Surrey ...
Premise / BY: Granger Avery, MD September 2014
... risk identification, and risk management protocols.[ 4 ] Outcomes are formally assessed in protected discussion, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Takai, MSc September 2014
... assessment (1 week), treatment (6 weeks), and extension (4 weeks). Postsurgical treatment: Worker-patients who have ... week), treatment (8 weeks), and two possible extensions (4 weeks each). All registered claimants are entitled to a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... (apixaban),[ 3 ] and ENGAGE (edoxaban 30 mg and 60 mg).[ 4 ] All four studies used stroke or systemic embolism as the ... arm. ENGAGE, a trial comparing edoxaban to warfarin,4 with a median TTR of 68% had a hemorrhagic stroke rate 9 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mariana Brussoni, PhD, October 2014
... increase in the age of riders in their training programs.[ 4 ]  Langley and colleagues[ 5 ] postulate that baby boomers ... In 2001, the hospitalization rate for older males was 18.4 per 100 000, which doubled to 36.0 by 2010. With every year ... rates for older females increased from 3.0 to 4.0 (average annual rate change = 0.58; P > .05), while rates ...