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News / BY: Kim Pelletier, CEBS, April 2016
... for life insurance and long-term disability insurance. A 1-year increase in the average age of a group is estimated to ... of Canada’s lending rate has been trending at less than 1% in order to stimulate growth. This is bad news for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2016
... group with a worldwide distribution of 20 named and 1 unnamed genospecies. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto seen in ... and B. garinii in Europe, are the main genospecies (group 1) that cause Lyme disease. A second group of eight ... ) have not been reported in, or isolated from humans.[ 1 ] It is expected that additional genospecies will be ...
Obituaries April 2016
... 1948 to Dr Pat Holden and Mrs Doris Holden, and died on 1 December 2015. Because Dr Holden’s father was in the ...
Obituaries / BY: Kim Martin, MD, April 2016
... with his new wife, Brenda, where he completed a 1-year internship program. Dr Martin then decided to become a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
... of one or both of these pilot projects. Project 1: Epidemiology statement Since 2015 two MRI providers in ... caution and in the context of the clinical situation.”[ 1 ] It will then go on to list the incidence of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... and can enter buildings and accumulate in indoor air.[ 1 ] As inhaled radon gas irradiates the lining of the lungs, ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS December 2016
... were 3 wound complications in the conventional group (1 leaking drain and 2 infections) vs 11 in the app group (6 infections, 2 minor hematomas, 1 each of edge necrosis, hemorrhage, and pneumonia). The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara N. Morrison, BHK May 2016
... of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature mortality.[ 1 ] Physical inactivity is associated with at least 25 chronic medical conditions.[ 1 ] However, there is also a transient increased risk of ... men who exercise vigorously less than once a week (RR = 74.1).[ 3 ] Interestingly, compared to risk during periods of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS October 2016
... most patients being discharged on the day of surgery.[ 1 , 2 ] Compared with in-patient surgery, outpatient surgery ... cancer patients in the care of a single surgeon over a 1-year period (February 2015 to January 2016) were ... participate in additional follow-up using Medeo ( Figure 1 ), a virtual care platform that consists of a smart phone ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
... of several products, including DNA, RNA, and myelin.[ 1 ] Clinically, this inactivation can present with a ... oxide exposure (40% to 66% concentrations) ranged from 1 to 11 hours.[ 3 ] A recent systematic review analyzed ... B12 deficiency and symptoms that only develop after 1 to 6 months of heavy use. They typically consume nitrous ...