Editorials /
BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC
September 2006
... 100 000 to 218 000 lives in the United States annually. [5] The third article in this issue de¬scribes the launch and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC
May 2006
... and indeed was the focus of an April 2004 theme issue. [5] It is worth a few minutes of every family physician’s ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kevin W. Johns, BSc
October 2006
... microalbuminuria when compared with 24-hour collections; [5] however, there is a lack of consistent comparisons ... the correlation of ACR results with 24-hour AER results. [5,8,9] Chaiken and colleagues obtained a correlation of r = ... untimed morning ACR results with 24-hour AER results. [5] However, most studies involve subjects with clearly ...
Letters /
BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2006
... and are not reliably suppressed by exogenous estrogen [4,5] and progesterone is significantly lower [4,6] than in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc
December 2006
... of invasive pneumococcal disease in those under the age of 5. [1] ( Figure ). The immune response to conjugate vaccine ... The Northern California Kaiser Permanente trials [5] determined the following outcomes: • Efficacy of the ... different from efficacy and was 93.9% (95% CI 79.6 to 98.5). The US initiated a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine program ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: H.F. Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCPC,
April 2006
... of estrogen at its receptor. Daily tamoxifen for 5 years reduces the risk of breast cancer death by 31%, ... a greater than 50% risk of being rendered menopausal. [5,6] If menstruation does resume, it usually does so within ... 2 to 3 years of tamoxifen. • AI therapy at the end of a 5-year course of tamoxifen. It has not yet been determined ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Ailve McNestry, MB,
October 2006
... that can result from misunderstanding these results. [5] Please feel free to share this information with your ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
June 2006
... of deaths that occurred in hospital decreased from 61.5% to 53.6% and the number of home deaths remained stable. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD
November 2006
... difficult to test. A comprehensive assessment (4 to 5 hours of testing) is more appropriate if there are multiple ... Although many symptoms should dissipate by 3 months, [2,5,6,19] the speed and rate of recovery can be variable. ...
Premise /
BY: Manfred Purtzki,
January/February 2006
... and in exchange, Holdco issues a promissory note to Lisa. 5. Medco redeems the stock dividend shares held by Holdco. 6. ...