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Letters / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD July/August 2014
... flashed back several decades. Our first daughter was 1 1 / 2  years old and full of unbridled energy. Standing waist ... ocean, she was playing tag with us as my wife and I stood 2 metres apart. At one point she tagged my wife, turned back ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... increased from $40 000 in 2001 to $71 000 in 2007,[ 2 ] a trend that has likely continued to rise along with ...
News July/August 2014
... “Constipation should be anticipated and sennosides (17.2 g twice daily)… ” should read “(17.2 mg twice daily).” Read the corrected version online at  ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... on the 2013 financial statements, highlighting the $2 million available in the student bursary fund. The Board ... There are usually many differing opinions on any issue. 2.    I am not always right. 3.    Working together is ... Is it going to improve the health of the population? 2.    Does it improve the experience of care of the ...
Obituaries / BY: Dorothy Woodhouse, MD, July/August 2014
Dr Ed McDonnell’s death on 2 February 2014 marked the passing of a gentleman who touched ...
Obituaries / BY: John Blatherwick, MD, July/August 2014
... Malaysia, Australia, and the Cook Islands, even spending 2 years as a professor at the University of Papua New Guinea. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anna R. Hayden, BASc, MD, September 2014
... to hospital, he had experienced a diffuse headache for 2 weeks and nausea and vomiting for 1 week. He reported ... in Surrey, BC, but had previously lived on a reserve for 2 years during his childhood. He denied high-risk sexual ... and other infectious foci. The CT chest scan revealed a 2-by-2.7-cm cavitating mass ( Figure 2 ), which was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... such as apoptosis, angiogenesis, or proliferation.[ 2 ] An ideal biomarker is measurable with a simple, ... phases:[ 3 ] 1.    Preclinical exploratory studies. 2.    Clinical assay and validation. 3.    ... into the serum.[ 6 ] The relatively long half-life of PSA (2.2 ± 0.8 days), coupled with a slow resolution of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH September 2014
... common cancer among Canadian women aged 20 to 44 years.[ 1,2 ] Each year in BC, about 175 women will be diagnosed and 50 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2014
... with kids to promote being active. We also use the 5-2-1-0 message, which stands for eating 5 fruits and vegetable daily, not having more than 2 hours of screen time a day, doing 1 hour of physical ...