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Obituaries / BY: John Blatherwick, MD, July/August 2014
... Malaysia, Australia, and the Cook Islands, even spending 2 years as a professor at the University of Papua New Guinea. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, December 2014
... by pain, severe tenderness, or reduced mobility.[ 1,2 ] Reasons for the reactions are unclear; however, they are ...
Letters / BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD January/February 2014
... bias. The other reference is to a recent Cochrane review[ 2 ] on spinal manipulation in chronic low back pain (not ...
News May 2014
... for communities at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, most predominately in First Nations communities. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mariana Brussoni, PhD, October 2014
... the younger group (20 to 44 years) and 2023 injuries (37.2%) in the older group (45 to 74 years). Over this 10-year ... injury and an abdomen/lower back/pelvis injury ( Table 2 ). In addition, hospitalization rates for older male ... North Vancouver Island, and the Okanagan areas ( Figure 2 ), all more rural regions of BC. Conclusions Our analyses ...
News April 2013
... year’s budget. Health spending is fore­cast to go up 2.3% in 2013–14, rising by 2.4% and 2.7% in the next two years as part of a 3-year plan. Regional ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David F. Smith, MD, October 2013
... a Driver’s Medical Exam Report must be completed every 2 years and sent to the OSMV to confirm the senior’s ... a walk-in clinic physician can do so. Just under 2% of seniors reaching this age milestone will have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP March 2013
... adult population than in the general population.[ 1 , 2 ] Research suggests that pain-related disability may be due ... with daily activities increases incrementally with age.[ 2 ] With 32% of seniors aged 85 and older living in ... however, does not recommend the use of either COX-2 selective or nonselective NSAIDs because of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... Recent guidelines in the United States[ 1 ] and Ontario[ 2 ] recommend that screening start at age 21, while screening ... low incidence rates for cervical cancer in younger women, (2) the relative ineffectiveness of screening in younger ... screened at either age 20 to 21 (OR 1.51; 95% CI, 0.95-2.38) or age 22 to 24 (OR 1.11; 95% CI, 0.83-1.50) when ...
News&Notes / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2013
... mobile phone users in March 2011 to 48% in March 2012.[ 2 ] Similarly, the most recent Ipsos Reid Mobil-ology poll, ... (61%), playing games (60%), and listening to music (57%).[ 2 ] CTWA found that 70% of smart phone users downloaded apps in 2012, compared with 58% in 2011.[ 2 ] In addition, CTWA found that 26% of mobile phone users ...