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Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... BC is the Pacific black-legged tick,  Ixodes pacificus ,[ 2 ] which is found throughout the highly populated areas of ... found negative for  B. burgdorferi . In the Okanagan over 2 years, 5557  D. andersoni  ticks were collected (no  I. ... disease were identified over the 12-year period ( Figure 2 ); 45 patients (48.4%) were male and most were between 41 ...
Obituaries / BY: John A. Jemson, MD, September 2011
... graduation they worked in the forestry industry, but after 2 years of working in various jobs in logging camps on ...
Letters / BY: Francis Ho, MD, December 2011
... was admitted to hospital for a severe illness. After about 2 to 3 weeks he had to be transferred to the intensive care ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD March 2011
... communicate without unnecessary encumbrances.        2.)  FAIRNESS PRINCIPLE - Every qualified member should have ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... the psycho­motor skills required for safe driving.[ 2 ] Cannabis intoxication slows reaction time and impairs ... whereas people who used alcohol underestimate theirs.[ 2-4 ]  Therefore, some researchers have suggested that ...
Premise / BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD October 2011
... total deaths from secondhand smoke worldwide at 600000.[ 2 ] Given recent and ongoing trends toward urban ...
News January/February 2011
... a mole or lesion to determine skin cancer in less than 2 seconds. It will help avoid unnecessary biopsies and detect ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC, May 2011
... This process is shown in the top (A) portion of  Figure 2 . These protein com­plexes require a number of cofactors ... therapeutic modality for mitochondrial diseases.[ 2 ]  Both NADH and FADH2 are need­ed for ATP production and ... include car­nitine palmitoyltransferase types 1 and 2, which require carnitine as a cofactor. In the ...
Editorials / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC September 2011
... from dementia is expected to increase from 1.5% in 2008 to 2.8% in 2038. Are we prepared?  Fortunately, there is some ... will focus more specifically on cognitive problems in Part 2. —Martha Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, Head, Geriatric ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, November 2011
... and moving to director of professional relations for 2 years before becoming executive director and CEO.  All ...