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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Melissa McLaws, DVM, PhD April 2017
... fatal zoonotic viral infection, and kills more than 59 000 people annually around the world, mostly in Asia and Africa. ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD April 2017
... other physicians, their families, and fellow cruisers. People are traveling to be social, to meet others, and to ... things in life, it isn’t the time or the place but the people that you share things with that make them special. ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS April 2017
... Examples of disease-disease interactions are common: older people with major neurocognitive disorder are at increased ... delirium during an acute medical illness,[ 2 ] and older people who develop delirium during hospitalization have a ... of disease-drug interactions are also common: older people with major neurocognitive disorder are at risk of ...
Letters / BY: Mary Donlevy, MD April 2017
... (i.e., with or without treatments offered)? These dying people are making an active choice in how they want to feel ...
News April 2017
... select groups, such as social-assistance recipients and people over age 65. Other Canadians may receive drug coverage ...
News April 2017
People who boost their vitamin D levels with supplements ... The impact in Canada, based on a population of 35 million people, shows vitamin D could spare 1.75 million people having one RTI per year. Vitamin D researchers have ...
News April 2017
... heart and lung problems. But what are its consequences on people in smaller urban centres? By comparing pollution data ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Bruce Campana, MD, FACEP, FRCPC April 2017
... do your favorite patients share? Courage. The bravest people I’ve ever met are those who know they are dying. ... What is your greatest regret? Not being able to tell some people I’ve hurt that I’m really sorry, and that I think ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... in our work and we become somewhat inured to its effect on people who do not see it as often as we do. People are afraid of death. Our youth-obsessed society lives ... ] In supporting patients as they learn about the ways that people die and encouraging them to address the cycle of life, ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS May 2017
... In them, I see the potential for great leaders. I see people very dedicated to family medicine and to providing ...