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News / BY: H. Douglas Cooper, MD, May 2015
... MD. New York: Basic Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-465-05474-9. Hardback, 364 pages. $32. You may already be familiar with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan R. Woods, PhD June 2015
... by 87%. Presented another way, in 2012 about 1 in every 9 BC residents was older than 70; by 2030 this number is ... changes for males and females were estimated to be 1.9% and 2.5%, respectively; thus, melanoma has been increasing ... as the decline for male lung cancer mortality (APC -2.9%), it is declining at last after lagging behind for the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, June 2015
... guidelines originally published by Taddio and collegaues.[ 9 ] These are summarized as follows.[ 10 ] •    ... by releasing endogenous opioids and through distraction.[ 9 ] The oral rotavirus vaccine used in BC has a high enough ... place the cream or patch on the appropriate site.[ 2 , 8,9 ] There is no one strategy that will work for every family, ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc June 2015
... 12 hours, leaving the hotel at 6:15 a.m. and returning at 9 p.m. A third important variance between the approaches of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Matthew, MHSc, MD, July/August 2015
... or resolution of obesity-related comorbidities.[ 9,10 ] The two bariatric surgery options available to ... Before surgery, patients had a mean BMI of 49.7 (range 35.9 to 70.9). Patients who underwent either a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2015
... that compromise the ability to rule out abuse.[ 9 ] In the US, barbiturates are the only medications used for ...
News July/August 2015
... Speech: Is it slurred or jumbled?  •    Time: Call 9-1-1 right away. The FAST theme is an easy way to remind ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: L. Zibrik, MA, July/August 2015
... chronic disease prevention and self-management.[ 7-9 ] We work in partnership with the BC Ministry of Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Chapple, MD, FRCPC, September 2015
... than 6 months (0.6%) and uncommon in children younger than 9 months (1.7%).[ 2 ] Further, almost 20% of infants, ... some cases a single bruise, that was not investigated.[ 6-9 ] Sheets and colleagues conducted a case-control ... was especially rare to find any bruises in an infant under 9 months of age. Patterned or clustered bruises It is well ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2015
... resources available in the journal  Pediatrics [ 6-9 ] and other sources from the Centers for Disease Control ...