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Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... main disease host, deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ).[ 5 ]  Examining ticks allows us to estimate the current ... structures, the 3' end of the 5S rRNA (rrf) and the 5' end of the 23S rRNA. The PCR was performed using a GE ... ; 17 Great Basin pocket mice,  Perognathus parvus ; and 5 Mon­tane voles,  Microtus montanus . These rodents were ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2011
... Terwiel Thanks in part to the Canucks’ Stanley Cup Game 5 victory the night before, the BCMA Annual Business Meeting ... Dr Essak then suggested that Meeting Standing Rules #5 and #7 be separated and a motion was put forward, but after ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2011
... unlikely to have contributed to the mortality difference.[ 5 ] Colorectal cancer Actual incidence rates for colorectal ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, May 2011
... 3. Primary bladder cancer 4. Primary site brain cancer 5. Primary colorectal cancer 6. Primary kidney cancer ... for each of the nine cancers is set out below:  1. 5 years for primary leukemia 2. 20 years for primary ... cancer  4. 10 years for primary site brain cancer 5. 20 years for primary site colorectal cancer 6. 20 years ...
Obituaries / BY: William L. Grapentine, MD, September 2011
... but was encouraged to return to medicine for another 5 years. Bernie is survived by his wife, Florence; his ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med, March 2011
... scores and ability to pass a simulated driving test.[ 5 ] Physical examination Although the most straightforward ... at age 80 and every 2 years thereafter to maintain a class 5 driver’s licence.10 Prior to 80 years, and setting aside ... risk is 1% under 65 years and then doubles for every 5 years of age, so that by 80 years the risk is 16%: those ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, July/August 2011
... million 2-year-olds (in US dollars for the year 2000).[ 5 ] Our case study illustrates the complementary roles of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC November 2011
... 40% of men aged 45 or older,[ 1 ] although less than 5% of these men are actually diagnosed and treated for the ... a bioavailable testosterone level is also obtained.[ 4 , 5 ] Physicians should be aware that testosterone levels ... level and confirm the original clinical impression.[ 5-7 ] Patients who test low for testoster­one should also be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC, May 2011
... in mitochondrial function, it is estimated that up to 1 in 5 individuals carry nuclear gene mutations, most of which are ... A muscle biopsy showed typical ragged-red fibres ( Figure 5 ), abnormal mitochondrial structure on electron microscopy ... including patients III-1, III-2, IV-1, IV-2, IV-3, and IV-5. Some family members with the mutation (IV-5) are ...
Editorials / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC September 2011
... suffering from dementia is expected to increase from 1.5% in 2008 to 2.8% in 2038. Are we prepared?  Fortunately, ...