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Clinical Articles / BY: Paul Dooley, MD, MSc, FRCSC November 2016
... procedure are equivalent to primary knee arthroplasty.[ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Unicompartmental arthroplasty Unicompartmental ... Canadian Institute for Health Information estimates that 1 in 4 Canadians are obese and that the rates are continuing ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC June 2016
... the production of toxins and, in some strains (e.g., NAP-1 strain), an overproduction of toxins. Manifestation of C. ... of the organism; however, children between the ages of 1 and 18 years are affected by C. difficile .[ 1 ] It is important to understand the changing epidemiology ...
News January/February 2016
... start planning their move to independent practice. Free 1-hour seminars are held on the first Tuesday of every month ... Tessa.Feuchuk@ubc.ca . Date Organization Speaker Topic 1 March 2016 MDFM Greg Lee Son Investing 101: Show me the ...
Obituaries April 2016
... 1948 to Dr Pat Holden and Mrs Doris Holden, and died on 1 December 2015. Because Dr Holden’s father was in the ...
News October 2016
... online at http://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/1/3/eaaf8864 . Watch a video with more information about the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... cardiac complications during pregnancy is increasing.[ 1 ] This is a unique circumstance where management for ... in collaboration with BC Women’s Hospital ( Figure 1 ). The Cardiac Obstetric (COB) clinic, the first of its ... defects. The risk for parents without CVD is approximately 1%. The risk can be higher in parents with hereditary ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB March 2016
... In just 15 short years that number will escalate to 1.35 million seniors—nearly one-quarter of BC’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD May 2016
... attainable, realistic, and timely or trackable goals[ 1 ] for behavior change. The most successful SMART goals are ... services at HealthLink BC ( www.healthlinkbc.ca  or 8-1-1). •    MEND (mind, exercise, nutrition, do it) and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... the first to demonstrate the utility of smoke forecasts[ 1 , 2 ] for public health protection, and the first to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2016
... to do so because of insufficient hospital resources.[ 1 ] Despite a current shortage and growing need for general surgeons because of an aging population,[ 1,2 ] 28.3% of Canadian graduates in general surgery are ... with recruitment are very relevant and topical.[ 1-3 ] The number of hours worked and the number of nights on ...