Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert D.H. MacMillan, MD, FRCSC,
November 2011
... social exclusion (homelessness), and food security,[ 1 ] also play a role in men’s health. Socially defined ... could be developed, each done weekly on the same night: 1. Cardiovascular health. Hypertension, diabetes, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
March 2011
... previous year, 2007 (range 0 to 5 cases per physician); 1,459 (92%) indicated they did not diagnose a case of LD in ... to evaluate physician behaviors related to LD. Scenario 1 presented a patient with EM and no laboratory testing; 58% ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Richard T. Lester, MD,
June 2011
... cell phone subscriptions surpassed 5 billion worldwide.[ 1 ] Statistics Canada recently reported that western ...
Letters /
BY: James McCormack, BSc(Pharm) PharmD
September 2011
... guide, they rarely reflect patient values and preferences.1 Guideline surrogate marker breakpoints typically have not ... evidence, another thing guidelines minimally provide,[ 1 ] so they can engage patients in the concepts of ... we said “In atrial fibrillation with a CHADS2 score of 1, 2, or 3 treatment with an oral anticoagulant is ...
News /
BY: Brian Day, MB
November 2011
... treatment of disease. By Michael Bliss. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4426-4175-4. Hardcover: 104 pages. $21.95. Michael Bliss ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM
April 2011
... positions in some specialties in British Columbia,[ 1 ] there have been few attempts to examine demographics and ... and 4% did not respond to the question ( Figure 1 ). Rheumatologists were found to practise in ... the time indicated a rheumatologist to population ratio of 1 to 85000 and estimates for the year 2000 placed the ratio ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD,
July/August 2011
... in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island found that 8.1% of drivers had been drinking and 10.4% tested positive for drugs, including 4.6% for cannabis.[ 1 ] The rate of cannabis use is even higher in other parts ...
Letters /
BY: George E. Price, MD
October 2011
... mistreatment, and failure to treat the condition.[ 1-3 ] In 1994, Rees and Axford theorized that a lower ...
Letters /
BY: Kevin W. Eva, PhD,
December 2011
... Dr Day’s editorial, “ So you want to be a doctor ?”[ 1 ] Dr Day raises many issues that are beyond the scope of a ... from medical school annually is a function of the 6:1 applicant-to-position ratio at UBC, not the selection ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM
April 2010
... cardiovascular (CV) risk factors such as hypertension[ 1 ] in response to overwhelming evidence showing the CV ... recited Hamlet from memory. He died at the age of 92 on 1 February 2005 in Washington, DC, of multiorgan ...