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Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... by a standard risk assessment tool using the Gail model.[ 4 ] A study based on a large sample of 1700 women expanded on ...
News / BY: Jean Lauzon, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2012
... for every death. In the Vietnam War, the ratio was 2.4:1. “That’s the reason the VA is being overwhelmed,” ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, May 2012
... that confirm the safety of homeopathic medicines.[ 1-4 ] An excellent case series report from Israel using ... the number of cases fell from the forecast 38 to 4 per 100000 per week, while in the neighboring provinces the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC October 2012
... and most comprehensive study of these issues to date.[ 4 ] This and other studies have brought to light several ... Canadian physicians report an average daily consumption of 4.8 servings of fruits and vegetables, with over half of ... physicians eating the minimum five recommended servings.[ 4 ] While this figure is higher than in the general ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC December 2012
... example of an adverse reaction to ephedra/ephedrine. On 4 June 1997 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... 14.6%,[ 3 ] and is projected to increase to 24% by 2036.[ 4 ] Thus, though the age-standardized incidence of colorectal ... basis; 28 presented to the emergency department and 4 were admitted directly after scheduled colonoscopy because ... The overall 30-day mortality for both groups was 4% and 1-year mortality was 21%. The overall pathologic stage ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, June 2012
... has again risen from the previous survey. Up overall by 4 percentage points from the 2010 survey, members primarily ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... offered the opportunity for “cultural immersion,”[ 4 ] an alternative ap­proach to didactic lecturing in ... a safe inter­action to be defined by the pa­tient.[ 4 , 9 ] Culturally safe care is providing care congruent with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nadia A. Khan, MSc, MD October 2012
... no compelling need to reduce blood pressure much further.[ 4 ] The effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs is not ... the standard treatment group.  After a mean follow-up of 4.7 years, the use of intensive BP lowering was not found to ...
Letters / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC January/February 2012
... comparable age group of 60 to 70 years, the results are 9.4% and 11.5% respectively, or an average of 10.5%. It is ... MMAS cohort has been preselected to include healthy men.[ 4 ] By excluding men who did not pass the questionnaire, or ... has an inherent selection bias of decreased detection.[ 4 ]  Third, it has been postulated that the prevalence of ...