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Clinical Articles / BY: Aneez Mohamed, MD, FRCPC, May 2009
... and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.[ 5,6 ] In the Rotterdam Study,[ 5 ] the risk of MI increased by approximately 40% per ... doctors continue to prescribe a drug that averaged nearly $5 billion in sales in North America in 2007 with no robust ...
Letters / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2009
... with PITO (“ EMRs and specialists” BCMJ 2009;51[5]:190 ). I went through the same process about 2 years ago, ...
Letters / BY: Michael A. Noble, MD, June 2009
... look far for examples of other municipal water outbreaks.[ 5 ] As much as municipal water at the origins may be ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... authority for updated information (see the adjoining box). 5. Know the temporary fees and bill them accordingly. Your ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... of hematuria, and the quantitative urinary protein was 5 g/L. The creatinine level was 112 µmol/L, and the ... as a late poststreptococcal neurological manifestation.[ 5 ] The authors argued for extending the neurological ... 50% in these pa­tients, it is conceivable that 1 in every 5 to 10 positive throat swabs are falsely indicative of acute ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marion Thomas, PhD, September 2009
... pairing with G. The DNA sequence in each of us is 99.5% identical to that of another person. Of the remaining 0.5%, one of the most common variations involves single base ... results were obtained for John and his family ( Figure 5 ). The A and G bases listed under each family member are ...
News December 2009
... 17) or  www.bcma.org/files/tHiNk_H1N1_LETTERSIZE.pdf  (8.5 x 11) to print a copy of the poster, and display it ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2009
... a worker, but she may choose to purchase POP. Scenario #5 Dr Jamison is an anesthesiologist who provides his services ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2009
... fitness by engaging in moderate-level physical activity 5 days a week leads to a reduction in mortality from all ... of undertaking 30 to 60 minutes of moderate activity 5 days per week. Pedometers for our patients can be obtained ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... a bat in the bedroom. However, only a small minority (~ < 5%) of such exposed and RPEP-eligible individuals sought ... rabies had unrecognized physical contact in the bedroom.[ 5 ] The incidence of rabies preventable by providing RPEP to ... in five cases of ra­bies transmission from two donors.[ 5 ] Fortunately, rabies remains a rare disease. Therefore, ...