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News January/February 2018
... able to order the drug as needed, which could take up to 2 business days to receive. Stock of mifegymiso will be ...
News January/February 2018
... in their final year reported being personally mistreated.[ 2 ] In 2016 the rate was 53%; in 2015 it was 50.6%.[ 3 ] Of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC January/February 2018
... fracture, with an incidence of approximately 195.2 per  100 000 patients per year,[ 1 ] most commonly in men younger than 50 and women older than 50.[ 2 ] From 1990 to 2015, WorkSafeBC saw 6025 workers with ... 10 degrees, or intra-articular displacement or step-off > 2 mm.[ 3 ] However, intra-articular step-off ≥ 1 mm has ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC June 2018
... resume, just by attending as little as a 1- to 2-week or longer course or training and/or doing some ...
News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... and about 1.7 million died worldwide from the disease.[ 2 ] Despite efforts to eliminate it, TB is now the leading ... but the infection has not progressed to active disease.[ 2 ] Those with latent TB infection (LTBI) do not present with ... is placed on treating those infected within the previous 2 years, immigrants and refugees from high TB–prevalence ...
News June 2018
... A practical approach to basal insulin management in type 2 diabetes,” published in Diabetes Therapy . Canadians with type 2 diabetes may need to take insulin to achieve their target ... enough on its own, due to the progressive nature of type 2 diabetes. A new generation of long-acting basal insulins ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD June 2018
... particularly those with chronic noncancer pain.[ 1 , 2 ] Opioid overprescription, improper risk assessment, and ... of opioids, and physicians who attend will receive 2.5 Mainpro+ credits.  Sessions have already been held in ... Langley/Surrey  25 September: Penticton/South Okanagan   2 October: Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Mission   19 October: ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD June 2018
... and cohort studies are needed to confirm these findings.[ 2 ] The emerging field of nutritional psychiatry takes a more ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... of a Canadian first-time mother was less than 28 years.[ 2 ] This means that within one generation there has been a ... Medicine  Editorials Guest editorial: Infertility, Part 2: How old is "too old" to have a baby? ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG June 2018
... discovered to be trisomy 21 almost 100 years later,[ 1 , 2 ] and confirmation that each cell normally contains 46 ... compared with 34.5% of embryos from women age 35, and 58.2% from women age 40. By age 43, over 83.0% of embryos were ... in IPS has been shown to increase the detection rate by 2% and reduce the false-positive rate by 2.5%.[ 5 ] ...