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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 ...