Clinical Articles /
BY: Pierre Leichner, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2005
... used for smoking cessation, [4] nutrition counseling, [5] contraceptive use, [6] medication adherence in chronic ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC
June 2005
... • 10% of seniors’ falls lead to serious injury and 5% lead to fractures. • 20% of seniors with hip fractures ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
December 2005
... and relaxation were of particular interest. The section on 5-year survival figures could be unsettling for some readers, ... late April, the training will get you ready to run in any 5 K or 10 K event. We have made some improvements this year ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
March 2005
... or from physical inactivity? Children who watch over 5 hours of television a day have an obesity rate 8.3 times ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
September 2005
... . This technology was made possible, in part, through a $5.1 million emerging-technology investment in PET from the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN
May 2005
... fatal for an infant if the mother develops varicella from 5 days before to 2 days after delivery. It is expected that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC
November 2005
... to have caregivers keep a daily patient behavior diary. [5] This should include duration, frequency, and severity of ... hallucinations–17%, major depression–24%, mania–3.5%, agitation/aggression–20%, wandering–17%, and ... ranged from 0% to 86%, with major affective disorder in 5% to 15% of patients, minor depression in 25%, and ...
Letters /
BY: A. Krisman, MD
January/February 2005
... he had seen 60 patients in the walk-in clinic during one 5-hour session. I thought about the wonderful care that I ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB
July/August 2005
... be used alone to assess the level of kidney function.” [5] A major advantage to the use of the eGFR is that the ... to reproduce multiple results on the same sample within 5%. The study allowed the computation of a factor for each ...
Editorials /
BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD
April 2005
... deal with that province’s physician shortage. Factoid #5: International graduates who are licensed to practise on ...