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Beyond Medicine / BY: Benjamin Millar, MD, March 2016
... 4 ] and the Canadian College of Family Physicians.[ 5 ] Online CPD activities have been recognized as useful ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2016
... confirmatory TB testing, including the Mantoux or 5 TU PPD TB skin test (TST) or an interferon gamma release ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... the lesion on the patient’s foot expanded to become a 5-cm black lesion with necrotic appearance and was ... that, heparin was administered but discontinued after 5 days when no benefit was perceived and a psoas hematoma ... to 63% in India and 16% to 66% in Korea and Japan, to 0.5% to 5.6% in Western Europe and 0.75% in North America.[ 3,4 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... examination increases sensitivity and specificity.[ 3,5,6 ] In contrast, the American Heart Association supports ... colleagues examined 15 027 individuals age 14 to 35 over a 5-year period using a personal symptom and family history ... was 36.0%, whereas it was only 7.4% for the ECG.[ 5 ] Although a personal symptom and family history ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... football, swimming, lacrosse, and cross-country skiing.[ 4,5 ] In Europe, soccer has the highest incidence of SCD.[ 6 ] ... strokes causing sudden death was also not insignificant.[ 5] The leading reported cause of SCD in the United States is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... (SCD) occurred less often in conductors than drivers (0.5/1000 versus 1.1/1000), and the conductors’ CHD were more ... 4 ] and fitness is related to physical activity patterns.[ 5 ] While physical activity can be difficult to estimate, ... between the least fit and the next-to-least fit group.[ 3-5 ] In a study assessing both fitness and physical activity ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... in tropical, subtropical, and some temperate regions.[ 4,5 ] There have also been rare accounts of transmission by ... expected due to the absence of an appropriate vector.[ 4,5]  An updated list of countries with known Zika virus ... She and her husband have not had sex since their return 5 days ago. Her family doctor counsels her on the available ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD April 2016
... fibrosis, fibrosing alveolitis, cystic fibrosis, etc.).  5.    Cerebrovascular disease, excluding acute transient ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM April 2016
... helped to reduce disaster morbidity and mortality.[ 3-5 ] For many, worry about a rare but catastrophic event does ... when other services are disrupted or overwhelmed.[ 3,5 ] Recently the Victoria Division of Family Practice began ...
Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... the bleak alternative of sterility for cancer patients.[ 3,5 ] More recently, following substantial advancements in ... is born with a finite number of eggs that diminish over 5 or 6 decades until menopause is attained. In a unique study ... layer destined to form the placenta) is biopsied on day 5 or 6 after fertilization and the chromosomal complement of ...