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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... most tablets/capsules contain multiple substances.[ 4,5 ] The concern was reported to the BC Drug Overdose and ... be effective; however, the efficacy of cyproheptadine, a 5-HT2A antagonist, has not been proved. Neither propranolol ...
Premise / BY: T. Chan, MHsc, MD, October 2015
... and Ten-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care[ 2 ] allotted $5.5 billion to the Wait Time Reduction Fund to improve access ... a wait of 4 or more months for nonemergent surgery.[ 5,6 ] British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Yu Ling Cheng, BSc, MD, October 2015
... herbal Chinese medicine use in other ethnic groups,[ 4,5 ] minimizing herbal interactions becomes increasingly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sylvia Stockler-Ipsiroglu, MD, PhD, MBA, FRCPC, November 2015
... below 70) and adaptive behavior. For children younger than 5 years with a delay in two or more developmental domains ... those for cardiovascular disease and cancer combined.[ 4,5 ] ID causes are extremely heterogeneous and include ... and management of each treatable ID.[ 14 ] In a 2.5-year study conducted at BCCH in the divisions of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rakel Kling, MD, MSc, November 2015
... can cross react with common bacterial antigens,[ 5 ] leading to false positives. The BC Public Health ... the two-step method (sensitivity = 87%, specificity = 99%[ 5 ]) compared to that of an alternative laboratory ... a lower proportion of errors due to false negatives (0.5%), but the overall error rate is high at 57%. Improving ...
News November 2015
... British Columbia found a genetic variation that brings a 5-times higher risk of heart damage for cancer patients ...
News November 2015
... HIV-positive women without cancer (46.2% compared to 17.5%). The study was conducted as a collaboration between the ...
Beyond Medicine November 2015
... related to influenza infection is higher in children under 5 years of age, and especially in those under 2 years of age, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... does not foster personal physician-patient relationships.[ 5 ] Solutions have been considered and implemented.[ 6 ] ... of medium tertile patients decreased from 28.1% to 18.5%, and the percentage of low tertile patients decreased from ... 2007, then spiked to 81.0% in 2008, before reverting to 63.5% in 2010, 60.8% in 2011, 58.5% in 2012, and 66.3% for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE, December 2015
... of the knowledge gained being used in a clinical setting.[ 5 ] Simulation types Many simulation formats require the use ...