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News / BY: Kim Pelletier, CEBS, April 2016
... is aging. The average age of Canadians will increase to 42.2 in 2021 (up from 39.9 in 2011). An older population will ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2016
... Clinic confirmed this as a new genospecies, B. mayonii .[ 2 ] B. mayonii was also identified in Ixodes scapularis , ... very closely related to the newly discovered B. mayonii .[ 2 ] The BCCDC Public Health Laboratory identified 18 samples ...
Obituaries / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2016
... years, followed by a return to Australia for 3 years, and 2 years spent teaching family practice residents through the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
... other imaging modalities and anatomic regions. Project 2: Form for specialist’s consultation In collaboration with ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... exposure to radon increases the risk of lung cancer.[ 2 ] The current Canadian guidelines, established in June ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS December 2016
... 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 ...
Letters / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS December 2016
... using the Medeo platform on my iPhone took approximately 2 minutes per instance, including billing the MSP fee code ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara N. Morrison, BHK May 2016
... sudden cardiac arrest, and sudden cardiac death.[ 2,3 ] In a recent study of sports-related deaths in the ... a measure of more than 21 mL of oxygen per kg per minute.[ 2,3 ] Moreover, the risk of sudden cardiac death can be ... 56-fold higher in those with the lowest activity levels.[ 2 ] Albert and colleagues also demonstrated that habitually ...
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 has ... app and secure password-protected online account ( Figure 2 ). Patients in the e-monitoring group were asked to take a ... online were analyzed. The chi-square test, student 2-tailed t test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
Case data A 34-year-old female presented with a 2-week history of progressive bilateral limb paresthesia and ... crystal methamphetamine for 5 years and from alcohol for 2 months. She was working as a care aid and denied using ... for 6 months, with an escalation of use over the previous 2 months. She reported using 10 to 12 nitrous oxide ...