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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, October 2009
... the average wait time for regular appointments from 5.8 to 2.5 days. • 89% of GPs who completed the chronic disease ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2009
... the cellphone is a hands-free or handheld model.[ 3 , 5,6 ] When people have cellphone conversations, they are ...
Letters / BY: Shefali Raja, BSc, July/August 2009
... and the guidelines limiting mercury to below 1.0 ppm and 0.5 ppm for most fish and shellfish species sold in Canada. But ... into low (<0.1 ppm), moderate (between 0.1 ppm and 0.5 ppm), and high (>0.5 ppm) making them easier to understand. Health Canada has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, December 2009
... non-AF patients.[ 2 ] AF is estimated to affect nearly 2.5 million Americans and 4.5 million Europeans.[ 3 - 4 ] While the overall prevalence of ... 60 years and nearly 1 in 10 over the age of 80 years.[ 3 , 5 ]  At age 40, the estimated lifetime risk for developing ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, May 2009
... old and I’ve been following him frequently over the last 5 months. He is failing to thrive. His weight has dropped ...
News September 2009
The 5-year survival rate for black people with melanoma is 59% ...
MDs To Be / BY: Peter J. Nicholson, January/February 2009
... an undergraduate degree, which is at least 66% as much).[ 5 ] We submit that this is a significant deterrent for those ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD July/August 2009
... for innovative ap­proaches to educational programming.[ 5,6 ] In this article the term “continuing professional ... participation in CPD activities are shown in  Table 5 . The attitudes of GPs and specialists regarding the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2009
... pain and are able to resume their normal activity sooner.[ 5 ]  Despite the advantages of a minimally invasive ... from further ana­lysis. Of the 20 remaining cases, 5 were right hemicolectomies, 2 left hemicolectomies, and 13 ... criteria were employed. Results:  The surgeons preformed 5 right hemicolectomies, 2 left hemicolectomies, and 13 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, April 2009
... with the evaluation system of the course (3.83/5.00 in the class of 2010 for the Year I course) and that as ...