Search

Council on Health Promotion / BY: Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, September 2009
... population in Canada set to double in the next [ 2 ] decades while the 85-and-older population will quadruple. ... will be 10 times that of the current financial crisis.[ 2 ] Furthermore, the IMF already considers Canada’s ratio ... younger cohorts. People age 65 and older accounted for 13.2% of the Canadian population but consumed an estimated 44% ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2009
... to leave to attend to urgent serious doctor business.[ 2 ] That’s all well and good, but their name tags usually ... 7 ] Footnotes 1. I have nothing against the elderly. 2. I don’t know what that is because I am just a GP. 3. You ...
Letters / BY: Michael A. Noble, MD, June 2009
... and virally safe, but outbreaks of Cryptosporidia parvum[ 2 ] and others parasites[ 3,4 ] are well established. And one ...
News October 2009
... #115 – 1665 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 by 2 April 2010. 2010 CMA Special Awards Further information on ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2009
... environment is at the core of naturopathic medicine. 2.  Tollum causum : remove the cause. Instead of treating ... but for unrestricted access to all Schedule 1 and 2 drugs, which is identical to the formulary access of ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2009
... informed the meeting that BCMA membership had increased by 2%, that the number of student members continues to increase, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2009
... response and enhances susceptibility to re-infection.[ 2 ] Up to 15% of annual incident chlamydia infections in BC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Dance, BSc, LLB, January/February 2009
... ear was normal. The patient was examined again under GA 2 weeks later. Microotoscopy revealed a 70% tympanic ... ear. The patient experienced intermittent vertigo for 2 months and headaches for 3 months post-op. At that time the ... if the perforation does not heal completely. In case 2, a 6-year-old female presented to the ER with a popcorn ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... even with consumption of more than two drinks per day.[ 2,3 ] The beneficial effects of increasing alcohol ... the elderly and those with a lower baseline risk or type 2 diabetes.[ 2-4 ] Unfortunately, the cardiovascular benefit of increasing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard N. Fenster, MD, FRCSC, October 2009
... these complications, but they are described as uncommon.[ 2-7 ] As a surgeon who is seeing increasing numbers of the ...