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Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer M. Wilson, MD, FRCPC, May 2010
... 3 ] and the use of donor organs after cardiac death.[ 4 ] One exciting new approach that may increase the supply of ... diet, and exercise. Patients are reassessed every 3 to 4 months by the transplant team to ensure that they remain in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC November 2010
... committed an impaired driving offence within the previous 4 hours; (b) the driver was involved in a crash resulting in ... and if drawing blood would endanger the patient.  4) The Criminal Code should be amended to remove the ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, January/February 2010
... skin and extracting the air by suction or prior heating.[ 4 ] Leeches used for bloodletting usually involved the ...
News July/August 2010
... varied widely across health regions in BC over a 4-year period. Published in the June issue of Obstetrics & ...
Obituaries / BY: M. Graham Clay, MD, April 2010
... Bud became a director of the BCMA, a position he held for 4 years. He also joined the Negotiating Committee in 1973, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD, October 2010
... 3 ] during Achilles tendon surgery to promote healing,[ 4 ] and treating Achilles tend­ino­pathy.[ 5 ]  Lower-quality and lower-level studies[ 1-4 ] showed the effectiveness of PRP in treating various ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, January/February 2010
... some facts about ADHD: • ADHD prevalence rates point to 4% to 6% in children, with approximate­ly 70% persistence ... opportunities.  The Multimodal Treatment Study (MTA),[ 4 ] now in follow-up of several years’ duration, continues ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH June 2010
... period from July 27–August 3, temperatures as high as 34.4°C were measured at Vancouver International Airport; during ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... without juice had numerous deaths from the disease.[ 4 ]  In 1747 Dr James Lind carried out his famous experiment ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD March 2010
... on the allocation of $30 million in disparity funding and $4 million in medical consultant funding, and on identifying ...