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News July/August 2014
... perinatal period (conception through pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum). The  Best Practice Guidelines for Mental ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... lessons I learned stand out and are worth repeating today: 1.    There are usually many differing opinions on any ... three criteria are met in all initiatives we undertake: 1.    Is it going to improve the health of the population? ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Clay Barber, July/August 2014
... once within the year and 14% twice within the year).[ 1 ]  Respirologists at Penticton Regional Hospital were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anna R. Hayden, BASc, MD, September 2014
... pathogen first documented on Vancouver Island in 1999.[ 1 ] The microorganism is found in soil and trees, and can infect humans through spore inhalation.[ 1 ] Though   C. gattii  is more prevalent globally in ... Island has one of the highest infection rates worldwide.[ 1 ] As a result, cryptococcal disease was made a provincially ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... identify patients as likely responders or nonresponders.[ 1 ] Prostate cancer biomarkers can be sourced from serum, ... of biomarkers typically passes through five phases:[ 3 ] 1.    Preclinical exploratory studies. 2.    Clinical ... to cause an increase of more than 15% in serum PSA within 1 hour, and could thus lead to a false-positive test result.[ ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH September 2014
... sexually active Canadians will develop an HPV infection.[ 1 ] There are more than 100 HPV strains and about 15 cause ... common cancer among Canadian women aged 20 to 44 years.[ 1,2 ] Each year in BC, about 175 women will be diagnosed and ... have increased by only 7%, and in the past 3 years by only 1%, indicating a plateau has been reached.[ 3 ] Despite ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD September 2014
... for call-out charges: •    A physician is called at 1 p.m. and arranges to see a patient after a clinic or OR ...
College Library / BY: Paula Osachoff September 2014
... compared  with MRI (intervention/process)?”[ 1 ] Whether a literature search is the end of a research ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2014
The 2014 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card[ 1 ] was released amid much fanfare at the Global Summit on ... with kids to promote being active. We also use the 5-2-1-0 message, which stands for eating 5 fruits and vegetable ... not having more than 2 hours of screen time a day, doing 1 hour of physical activity a day, and consuming 0 sugar ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD September 2014
... his perspective; however, for some women, even waiting 1 more year at that age might be too long.   I knew before I ...