Clinical Articles /
BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC
October 2017
... patients with symptomatic varicose veins ( Table 3 ).[ 5,6 ] Clinical trials have found improvements in pain, ... procedures. Van der Velden and colleagues looked at 5-year results comparing surgery, EVLA, and foam ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM
December 2017
... 10 days, where no HIV markers are detectable in blood.[ 5 ] Approximately 10 days after infection, HIV RNA becomes ... BC for HIV screening, detect infections about 4 to 5 days earlier than the older, third-generation assays that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC
November 2017
... with local transmission in Canada first noted in 2003.[ 5 ] Untreated, this infection often presents with hemorrhagic ...
Interviews /
BY: Joanne Jablkowski
September 2017
... his degree. When I was born we moved to Quebec City for 5 years, and then my father was hired at Stanford University ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC
December 2017
... in monitoring and improving their own health habits.[ 5-10 ] Undoubtedly, merely tracking data through a device ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Damon Ramsey, MD
December 2017
... and commerce has simply not happened in health care.[ 5 ] A 2013 RAND and American Medical Association study of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bidu, MBA
December 2017
... act as medicine to alleviate known health issues.”[ 5 ] Technology-related opportunities The digitization of ...
Premise /
BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD
December 2017
... and 61 had left for jobs in the US and other countries.[ 5 ] The Canadian system is not providing the operating room ...
Physician Spotlight /
BY: Brian Day, MB
March 2017
... Despite being in his 90th year, he still plays 4 to 5 times a week. George Bernard Shaw’s famous statement is a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC
December 2017
... may experience fragmented care and poor outcomes.[ 5 ] This is particularly apparent in large urban environments ... acknowledged, and the average time to acknowledgment was 5 days. Of these, 42% were acknowledged within the target ...