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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2012
... the number re­ported to public health (13), for 2007.[ 1 ]  We sent a follow-up survey to 1500 randomly selected ... erythema migrans, 87% reported they suspected LD.  Figure 1  summarizes physician-observed clinical presentations of ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, June 2012
... to government (up 2 percentage points), negotiations (up 1 percentage point), and Club MD (up 2 percentage points). ...
News / BY: Sinden Luciuk, October 2012
... fee structure that currently approaches approximately 1.4% of the value of an average policy. Al­ternatively, you ... prooney@bcma.bc.ca or phone at 604 638-2872 or toll free 1 800 665-2262, ext. 2872. The information provided in this ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD January/February 2012
... therapy de­livered by the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.[ 1 ] This trial was to be the evidence to publicly fund a ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS May 2012
... books online but prefer print for reading an entire book.[ 1 ] The online reading experience was one of very short ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Forbes, MD, September 2012
... 000 umbilical herniorrhaphies are performed each year.[ 1 ] While research historically has focused on ways to ... colleagues found that when the surgeon recommended only 1 day off work, the med­ian absence from activity was 6 days ... to investigate the consequences of a surgeon-recommended 1-day convalescence on recurrence and return-to-work rates. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC December 2012
... attempts; and 94% report­ed feelings of hopelessness.[ 1 ]  When health services for corrections were taken over by ... are part of  the problem in several countries.[ 1 ]  A study completed jointly by the WHO Health in Prisons ... crimes, for which they serve relatively short sentences.[ 1 ] There is seldom a need for the high levels of prison ...
Letters / BY: Devon Christie, MD, March 2012
... pursue “complementary and alternative medicine”[ 1 ] while 85% with advanced cancer use CAM.[ 2 ] ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
... raising the question, “Is obesity the wrong target?”[ 1 ] I firmly believe that it is. The obesity epidemic has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD, October 2012
... is also linked causally to kidney failure and dementia.[ 1 , 2 ] Healthy lifestyle choices coupled with early ... be set to take multiple measurements automatically at 1- or 2-minute intervals. New research has established that similar readings are obtained at both the 1-minute and the 2-minute mark, allowing for use of the ...