Premise /
BY: B. Nosyk, PhD,
December 2014
... lists are said to exist outside the Lower Mainland,[ 2 ] at least one survey of inner-city drug users indicates ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc,
March 2014
... of the highest proportions of cellphone users in Canada,[ 2 ] giving the province enormous potential to use mHealth in ...
Letters
June 2014
... 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine [ 2 ] also of interest. Checklists have been the—and I mean ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Raymond Li, BSc(Pharm), MSc
November 2014
... dose ingested was 300 mg (mostly sustained release).[ 2 ] Frequent adverse effects were agitation, dizziness, ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Shelley Ross, MD
April 2014
... from the 2010 National Physician Survey indicated that 69.2% of BC physicians were using online journals, clinical ... and 372 500 hospital days per year in the United States.[ 2 ] UpToDate contains features to help physicians practise ... reading articles and stores the information for up to 2 years. Access for members of divisions of family practice ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS,
September 2014
... such as apoptosis, angiogenesis, or proliferation.[ 2 ] An ideal biomarker is measurable with a simple, ... phases:[ 3 ] 1. Preclinical exploratory studies. 2. Clinical assay and validation. 3. ... into the serum.[ 6 ] The relatively long half-life of PSA (2.2 ± 0.8 days), coupled with a slow resolution of ...
Letters
December 2014
... small INR deviations are profound: compared with an INR of 2-2.5, risk of embolism increases nearly fourfold at an INR of ... hemorrhage (ICH) increases similarly at 3.6-4.5.[ 2 ] Even in the controlled environment of clinical trials, ...
News
January/February 2014
... only in utero; however, when they gave the eye drops to 2-week-old mice with aniridia they found that it reversed the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH,
June 2014
... height.[ 9 ] Current treatment guidelines recommend 0.2 mg/day of growth hormone for young adult men with GHD and ... adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors (see Table 2 ). The main benefits described by respondents include ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC
October 2014
... cases have been identified in BC over the last 7 years,[ 2 ] including clusters and transmissions within and across ...