Clinical Articles /
BY: Jiao Yang, MD, FRCPC,
May 2013
... thickening in keeping with pulmonary sarcoidosis ( Figure 1 ). She also demonstrated slight enlargement of right ... have overt clinical evidence of cardiac involvement,[ 1 ] such as heart failure, conduction defects, or ... prednisone and evaluating the patient’s response after 1 to 3 months. Among responders, prednisone should be slowly ...
News
September 2013
... clinical reports to be entered went from 7 days to 1 day. HEARTis has been implemented at Royal Jubilee Hospital ...
Letters /
BY: Shahzad Anwar,
March 2013
... who seeks health-related information on the Internet.[ 1 ] These people tend to focus on the worst-case scenario and ...
News
June 2013
... cancers. The research project is anticipated to start 1 July, with clinical trials scheduled to open during the ...
Obituaries /
BY: Archie D. Young, MD,
October 2013
... moral ethic and sense of responsibility. Drew spent grades 1 through 12 at University Hill School. He went on to UBC, ...
News /
BY: Kate Senkow,
January/February 2013
By 1 February 2013, the BC Medical Association’s website will ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
April 2013
... in a few communities the program went province-wide 1 April. Funding is available for family physicians to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC
September 2013
Type 1 diabetes mellitus, cystic fibrosis, and congenital ... disease that has a prevalence rate similar to that of type 1 diabetes and higher than that of cystic fibrosis and congenital hypothyroidism[ 1 , 2 ]—so often not recognized, leaving many affected ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
December 2013
... 10% to 15% of conventional medicine is evidence based[ 1 ] has taken hold not only in public but also in medical ... the informal comments of OTA epidemiologist Kerr White.[ 1 ] Dr White was referring to a 1963 insurance study that ... appropriately targeted to the condition being treated.[ 1 ] It was in this study that prescriptions were found ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Gary Mazowita, MD,
March 2013
... disorders on the increase, especially among the elderly.[ 1 ] Within the residential care setting, the reported ... hypoglycemia cases requiring hospitalization are rare (1% of their sample). Less clear are the rates of hypoglycemia ...