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Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... inquiry into estrogen-receptor breast cancer testing,[ 7 ] and the Manitoba pediatric cardiac surgery inquest,[ 8 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Malcolm Brigden, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, January/February 2014
... free light chains as well as whole immunoglobulin.[ 2 , 7 ] It has also been established that an abnormal kappa to ... of free light chains do not appear in the urine.[ 1,2 , 7 ] This makes serum FLC testing ideal for detecting and ... be identified with these three non­invasive tests.[ 1,2 , 7 ] What distinguishes MGUS from frankly malignant ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... food insecurity have poorer school performance,[ 7 ] and having not learned healthy eating habits in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... likely to be placed at an earlier stage of their illness.[ 7 ] Services such as First Link, provided through the ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
The saga began inauspiciously in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Burns Lake, BC. My wife Leslie and I ...
Obituaries / BY: Mary Ann Waldmann, RN, January/February 2014
... born on 6 December 1920 in Stettin, Germany, and died on 7 October 2013 in Abbotsford, BC. He graduated from Kiel and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... suggestions and consensus from practising cardiologists.[ 7 ] Originally, four recommendations were listed in 2004. ... in special populations listed in the updated guidelines.[ 7 ]  Ambulatory electrocardiography can diagnose new ... in patients with stroke in 1.0% to 5.4% of cases.[ 7 ] The role of treatment of ventricular ectopy for mortality ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc, March 2014
... subscriptions will outnumber the world’s population of 7 billion people.[ 1 ] The use of mobile communication ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... province, which is much higher than the reported rate of 7.4% for Kenya as a whole.[ 1 ] We suspect this is due to a ... child from participating. What we achieved Over the past 7 years we have achieved each of our goals, at least in part. ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... for instance, the rate of smoking among students in grades 7 to 12 was 8.7%, whereas the rate of abusing painkillers was 15.2% (opioid ... ensuring safe prescription practices among clinicians.[ 7 ] The US CDC recommends that prescription drug monitoring ...