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Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
The estimated global prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes is 8.8%,[ 1 ] with Indigenous people being disproportionally affected.[ 2 ] In Canada, the prevalence rate in Indigenous adults ... patients a second time within the subsequent 6 months to 2 years, depending on resources, and episodically thereafter. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
Worldwide prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is on the rise, yet we remain without a cure for ... Physiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC).[ 2 ] Subsequent work by this group, including Dr Chris McIntosh, using preclinical models of type 2 diabetes, played a key role in the eventual therapeutic ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... woman with Alzheimer disease who was asymptomatic.[ 2 ] Infection with Baylisascaris occurs when humans ingest ... to people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 weeks to become infectious and can remain viable in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2018
... expands its range northward into populated regions.[ 2 ] In BC, the tick I. pacificus is the main carrier of Lyme ... visit, including the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia.[ 2 ] Enteric diseases Many enteric diseases are more common in ...
Obituaries / BY: Jeff Purkis, MD December 2018
... year. They traveled to England, where Bob completed 2 years of general surgery and orthopaedics post-grad ...
News December 2018
... 6 months after a previous birth, researchers found a 1.2% risk of maternal mortality or severe morbidity. Waiting 18 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2018
... and that I don’t keep any on hand as, at 2 a.m., when you haven’t slept, you can’t pop what you ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd December 2018
... the many times he played games with a 6-month-old or a 2-, 5-, or 15-year-old who arrived in the ER scared to death. ... to watercolors. While a physician, he dedicated up to 2 months a year to painting. For the last decade, Haughton ... of full-time painting. More likely: I am 60 years old.”[ 2 ] Haughton’s artistic process for landscapes starts with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matt Kurrek, MD, FRCPC December 2018
... luxury—today’s necessity: End-tidal CO 2 monitoring during conscious sedation.”[ 2 ] The editorial addressed what is now commonly referred to ... IV meperidine or 25 to 75 mcg IV fentanyl with midazolam 2 mg IV plus additional doses as required) suggest that at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... alone, costing the nation an estimated $1.26 billion.[ 2 ] In British Columbia, drug poisonings have led to the ... to 2013, unintentional poisoning deaths increased from 7.2 to 9.2 per 100 000 ( P = .004), and all-intents poisoning deaths ...