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WorkSafeBC / BY: J. Robinson, MD, October 2013
... combination of specific exercises and manual therapy.[ 2 ] The dramatic results of this study are not unique. They ...
News March 2013
... Columbia places fifth among the provinces: 1. Quebec 2. Ontario 3. New Brunswick 4. Nova Scotia 5. British ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... for a balanced budget, at the end of 2012 the BCMA had a $2.9 million surplus. He explained that this level of surplus ... the Audit and Finance Committee. Nominees, who each gave a 2-minute speech, were Ms Michelle Chiu (a medi­cal student ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc, January/February 2013
... are inappropriate is not supported by published data.[ 2-7 ] One Canadian prospective study of ultrasound, CT, and MRI done by Butler and Stolberg found that only 2.5% were inappropriate.[ 8 ] The purpose of this study was ... The results of the computer analysis summarized in  Table 2  show that although only 2% of the imaging orders were ...
Letters / BY: Robert G. Holmes, MD April 2013
... Dr Rafi-Zadeh describes a small community of 8000 people 2 to 3 hours from Vancouver where one GP grosses over $1 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM October 2013
... live attenuated vaccine is recommended for children aged 2 to 17 years.  The influenza virus strains in FluMist are ... formulation in both healthy younger children[ 1 , 2 ] and in asthmatic children and teens,[ 3 ] and offers the ... 17 years.  LAIV is not approved for use in children under 2 years of age because its use doubled the rates of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean-François Kozak, PhD, March 2013
... of the population today to almost 24% by the year 2031.[ 2 ] Although many seniors lead healthy and active lives, a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Hossack, MD, June 2013
... physician rated the patient’s function as 1–2 out of 10, pain level as 9–10 out of 10, and noted that ... mood disorder that was likely masked by opioids. Case 2 This worker, now 72 years old, broke his leg 20 years ago. ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2013
... have been shown to be efficacious by controlled trial.”[ 2 ] This statement is attributed to the informal comments of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tyler W. Smith, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2013
... a heritable or an acquired thrombophilia. Over the past 2 decades, there has been great interest in predicting an ... modest effect on increasing the risk of recurrent VTE.[ 2,3 ] Unfortunately, the limitations of HT testing are ... inpatient setting (54.1%; 1358 of 2510 tests).  Figure 2  shows that women tested for FVL (median age 38 years) ...