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Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... breast cancer, and 600 will have died from the disease.[ 2 ] If age-standardized incidence rates remain constant, the ... new breast cancer cases over the 3054 diagnosed in 2010.[ 2 ] Breast cancer prevention While there have been positive ... Organization and structure The clinic is supported by 2 years of funding through a grant from the Canadian Breast ...
Premise / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP June 2012
... to determine using a model pioneered at Johns Hopkins,[ 2 ] whereby patients are categorized according to adjusted ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: David Florkowski, PhD, MEd, ATC, CSCS, CEAS, CFCE, October 2012
... limited to 8 weeks or 22 visits. Physiotherapy for stream 2:  Coverage is provided for more complex injuries, such as ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM January/February 2012
The publicly funded rotavirus vaccine for infants at 2 and 4 months of age is the orally administered live ... series and a more favorable cost-effectiveness profile.[ 2 ]  Based on im­mu­nization registry data, about ... within 1 year after vaccination to 9 at 5 years and 58.2 at 9 years after vaccination.[ 4 ]  This phenomenon may be ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Prabjit Barn, MSc, May 2012
... Bq/m3) and the World Health Or­ganization (100 Bq/m3).[ 2 ]  Although many homes in BC may have radon concentrations ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Forbes, MD, September 2012
... rates and made the return to usual activities faster.[ 2 ] The optimal duration of convalescence has thus been a ... work after surgery, general practitioners recommended 6.2 weeks and patients actually took an average of 7.0 weeks ... compared with laparoscopic techniques (13% to 15% vs 2.4%).[ 23 ]  While the type of repair appears to have an ...
Letters / BY: Colin Campin, MB, December 2012
... identify patients who need further vascular assessment.[ 2 ] Unfortunately, pharmacies with blood pressure measuring ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... health authorities, as well as those of the US FDA.[ 2 ] —H.C. George Wong, MD Vancouver   Letters Homeopathic ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
... far exceeds the risks associated with modest obesity.[ 2 , 3 ]  High-quality studies show many of the benefits of ... living with a chronic disease such as CVD, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and depression. It is no exaggeration to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD, October 2012
... also linked causally to kidney failure and dementia.[ 1 , 2 ] Healthy lifestyle choices coupled with early detection ... tests, and medications—was estimated to be almost $2.4 billion in 2007.[ 7 ] Blood pressure measurement Blood ... set to take multiple measurements automatically at 1- or 2-minute intervals. New research has established that similar ...