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News&Notes / BY: Dan Small, PhD, MPhil Cantab, January/February 2011
... Setarcoppih, believed to have been born in 460 BC.[ 3,4 ] Some scholars question whether Setarcoppih was an actual ... Anneciva (Anis Nbi), a Persian Naicisyhp, born AD 980.[ 4,6 ]  He was a renowned Naicisyhp healer residing in ... of some note in France was Yug de Cailuahc (1300 - 1368).[ 4 ]  The precise origins of the various subgroups of ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... year he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps for 4 years and, in 1960, was posted to Singapore and Malay­sia, ... elected to the BCMA Board of Directors, a post he held for 4 years.  In 1985 he became a medical advisor for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stacy L. Elliott, MD, November 2011
... the overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) was 49.4%,[ 1 ] and therefore ED affects an estimated 3 million ... sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual performance.”[ 4 ] “Sexual performance,” however, is not defined as ... in diameter—notably smaller than coronary arteries (3 to 4 mm), carotid arteries (5 to 7 mm), and femoral arteries (6 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM April 2011
... respondents were not actively practising rheumatology and 4% did not respond to the question ( Figure 1 ).  ... for retirement were also gathered in the survey, with 23.4% of practising BC rheumatologists indicating they plan to ... BC has 32 FTE rheumatologists serving a population of over 4 million.[ 3 ] The discrepancy between the number of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen J. Kiraly, MD, FRCPC, September 2011
... a man be cast in his old age upon the mercy of his own.[ 4 ]  Even if we are better informed scientifically today, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... their patients have “significantly better survival,”[ 4 ] InspireHealth’s website delineates what it is that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2011
... of metronidazole was given, and her illness subsided over 4 days. There were no further recurrences. Scenario B An ... prac­tical terms for general practitioners ( Table 1 ).[ 4 , 5 ]  The likelihood of developing infection largely ... of metronidazole when used in a standard dose of 125 mg 4 times a day for 10 days (pediatric course: 40 to 50 mg/kg/a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard T. Lester, MD, June 2011
... to improve adherence to their antiretroviral medication.[ 4 ]  After the first year of treatment, patients receiving ...
Letters / BY: George E. Price, MD October 2011
... differences in the causative organism,  B. burgdorferi .[ 4 ] In 1995 I reported a case of Lyme arthritis in BC and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Janet McElhaney, MD, March 2011
... older adults have an innate capacity for rehabilitation;[ 4 ] at almost any given level of frailty, some improvement ...