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Premise / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC October 2007
... present is permissible—however ineffective it may be. 5. The placebo effect. Seventy percent of nonterminal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Heilbron, MB ChB March 2007
... [1-4]  Close to 100% of coronary arteries greater than 1.5 to 2.0 mm in diameter are reportedly assessable with 64-CT, ... 16-CT report only 70% of similar vessels are assessable. [5] The rapid acquisition time required to successfully image ... angiography. [8]  They reported sn of 72.2%, sp of 92.5%, ppv of 65.0%, and npv of 94.5% in the assessment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle P. Wong, MD July/August 2007
... in patients when the INR or the PTT is greater than 1.5 times the upper limit of the reference range.  [5] • Patients who have received plasma should have their ... approximately 12 hours after vitamin K administration. [5]  (Grade B recommendation, Level IIa evidence.) Liver ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... Physician Master Agreement now in place, I hope the next 5 years will be relatively calm on the negotiations front. My ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC May 2007
... (fingerstick blood, saliva) with results available in 1 to 5 minutes. POC HIV tests are screening tests based on the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... amount, in reality this is equivalent to about 4.5 months of operational expenses. The general guideline for ...
News / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2007
... in the number of infant formulas on the market in the last 5 years, deciding which formula to use for infants who cannot ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM June 2007
... to tenfold over that experienced in seasonal epidemics.  [5,6]  Only RT-PCR assays with semiautomated extraction ... small clusters (Phase 4) to larger communities (Phase 5). At this stage, the unique clinical features of the ...
News November 2007
... 10 women surveyed is aware of their risk of relapse after 5 years of tamoxifen treatment. Results from the survey show ... risk of recurrence. • Four women in 10 felt cured after 5 years of tamoxifen therapy, previously used as the standard ... treatments that could reduce their risk.  •  The 5-year survival rate is now 86%. Treatment and better ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pamela S. Lansky, MA, MEd, RCC, April 2007
... and emotional development, extending into childhood. [5]  As a result, there have been calls for universal ...