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 ...