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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD October 2011
... suggests that delaying these foods for longer than 4 to 6 months does not prevent food allergies and may even ... waiting until 6 months of age before offering solid foods. 4. Is organic food more nutri­tious than non-organic food? ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2011
... and acute serology is negative, a convalescent test 2 to 4 weeks later may aid in diagnosis. However, early treatment ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... Island found that 8.1% of drivers had been drinking and 10.4% tested positive for drugs, including 4.6% for cannabis.[ 1 ]  The rate of cannabis use is even ... whereas people who used alcohol underestimate theirs.[ 2-4 ]  Therefore, some researchers have suggested that ...
Letters / BY: Ben R. Wilkinson, MB, FRCSC November 2011
... time, which, since it was not urgent, would be in about 4 to 6 months. As it is a chronic problem, I decided against ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC, May 2011
... larger subgroup and are transmitted in mendelian fashion.[ 4 ] Genetics thus indicate there are two genomes involved in ... people and are much more common than previously realized.[ 4 - 6 ]  Given the large number of nuclear genes involved in ... the mutation does not translate into clinical symptoms.[ 4 ]  Thus, as a group, primary mitochondrial diseases are ...
News September 2011
... rapidly; from 2.1 per 1000 population in 2004 to 2.4 in 2009, but points out that this remains well below the ...
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 ...