Letters /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
January/February 2003
... so short that it cannot be subdivided?” ( BCMJ 2002;44[9]:460 ). In 1900 Max Planck, whilst studying black body ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: P. Terry Phang, MD
September 2003
... Statistics were performed using SPSS software (version 9.0, Chicago, IL). Methods of comparison included the Pearson ... 4 years, overall recurrence rates (local and distant) were 9% for stage 1, 28% for stage 2, and 40% for stage 3. Use of ... in relation to the mesorectal circumferential margin. [9,10] Groups in Europe and North America have published ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jack Taunton, MD
December 2003
... tendinitis, [7,11-14,16] lateral epicondylitis, [9,10,12,13,17] and calcaneal spurs, but little research has ... < .05). The mean VISA score for the control group was 49.9 pretreatment, 54.3 posttreatment at 5 weeks, and 53.2 at 12 ... ( P < .05). The mean scores for the control group were 3.9 pretreatment, 4.2 posttreatment at 5 weeks, and 5.3 at 12 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stuart Johnston, MD
May 2003
... health care facilities located in rural-like communities. [9-22] The remaining studies involved such things as the ... in the Vanderhoof-Stoney Creek telehealth project was 9 hours. In another Australian telemedicine project—this ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: N. Miller, BSc/BPHE
November 2003
... system and consequent development of metabolic acidosis. [9] The ventilatory threshold, therefore, is a nonlinear ... demonstrating a greater increase than NG subjects (7 .9% ± 10.47 compared with 2.59% ± 6.41, respectively, t17.97 ... 1 week of missed training was required for all of the 42.9% lower leg injuries. Conclusion: From these data, it ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC
March 2003
... Services by Chinese people has risen from 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in 1999. [4] Reitz [1] advocated ... Family physicians referred 83.2% (n=308). A total of 14.9% (n=55) were referred indirectly by the Insurance ... disorder and other anxiety disorders were diagnosed in 9.5% (n=35) of patients. Other significant diagnoses included ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: P. Terry Phang, MD
September 2003
... definite influence on local recurrence rates ( Table 3 ). [9] The Dutch and our review have shown increasing local ...
Letters /
BY: Caroline Penn, MD
December 2003
... a fecal-oral route and has an incubation time of 2 to 9 weeks. Although it is relatively benign, there is a ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
June 2003
... neighborhood outdoor swimming pool when I was around 8 or 9 years old. There had been a number of children and young ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc
November 2003
... to a slower gait that creates excessive muscle fatigue. [9] A decrease in functional fitness also occurs with ... between groups for either mean age (control group 75.9 ± 3.7 years; training group 76.1 ± 4.8 years) or PASE ... 43.85 (8.91) 47.00 (8.23) Hip flexion† 6.32 (2.46) 9.01 (3.12) 10.63 (3.22) Hip abduction† 5.15 (2.38) 8.07 ...