Premise /
BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC
May 2025
... were anticipated, as demonstrated by the allocation of 5% of the Human Genome Project’s total budget to address ... targeting malignant cells. Gene editing technologies[ 5 ] allow highly specific changes to be made in the DNA of a ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
October 2025
... Washington’s death in 1799, following the removal of 2.5 L of blood alongside blistering and laxatives, is now ... approach to brain trauma in Hippocratic medicine.[ 4,5 ] While not a direct ancestor of the modern burr hole, the ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
January/February 2025
... balance is 80% low intensity and 20% high intensity.[ 5,6 ] Elite athletes understand this, and so should we. ...
Letters /
BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD
June 2025
... practices across the world vary substantially.[ 5 ] Opioids, in excess of clinical need, increase the risk of ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD
April 2025
... to augment medical school curriculums to promote empathy,[ 5 ] social accountability,[ 6 ] and an understanding of the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC
September 2025
... fear, as well as positive emotions, like gratitude.[ 3 , 5 ] Patients may appear apathetic or indifferent when ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports /
BY: Denise Werry, PharmD, ACPR
January/February 2025
... methicillin-resistant S. aureus tenosynovitis. Despite 5 weeks of daptomycin therapy, the patient developed a new ... bacilli smear-positive aspirate flagged as positive at 5 weeks of incubation. Further incubation at 6 weeks ...
Premise /
BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD
June 2025
... 1 ] These early documents were limited in scope, with 5 and 10 articles, respectively, and they did not define the ... of a child’s well-being remains controversial.[ 4,5 ] The UNCRC in Canada The Canadian government ratified the ...
Back Page /
BY: BCMJ Staff
November 2025
... to the journal. Surveys are conducted every 3 to 5 years, and in every survey since 2002, respondents have ... the journal should reduce its political correctness, 5% critiqued the journal’s diversity of perspectives, and ... journal should reassess its mission. In a similar vein, 5% suggested that clinical content be enhanced, 5% offered ...
Editorials /
BY: Sepehr Khorasani, MD, MSc, FRCSC
March 2025
... of hospital stay, and lower overall complication rates.[ 5,6 ] Urinary and sexual dysfunction have also been shown to ... (an additional 20 to 30 minutes in rectal surgery);[ 5 ] however, this will become a nonissue as surgeons become ... surgery residency and fellowship programs, less than 5% of resident clinical case volume constituted robotic ...