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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2009
... increase in crashes serious enough to injure the driver[ 2 ] and a fourfold increase in property-damage-only crashes.3 ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, June 2009
... Scale 15/15). It was developed by Stiell and colleagues.[ 2 ] Their article is helpful and is available in full on the ... examined by X-ray. The participants received an MRI within 2 weeks of the MVA and again at 3 months. They were evaluated ...
Letters / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC October 2009
... with some series suggesting an upper limit of 7 days.[ 2-4 ] In light of these observations, the US Centers for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... a food product under Health Canada’s Food and Drug Act.[ 2 ] The Canadian Food Inspection Agen­cy inspects domestic manufacturers and importers.[ 2 ] Products are subjected to a monitoring program focusing ... No licence is required to sell bottled water in Canada[ 2 ] but companies must adhere to provincial regulations when ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sadiq Abdulla, BA, July/August 2009
... from rural backgrounds who are studying medicine.[ 2 ] Despite this, there continues to be a shortage of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2009
... for participation in routine screening mam­mography every 2 years is 70% of women aged 50 to 69. Current participation ... odds of a woman participating in screening mammography.[ 2-9 ]  To learn more about why not all patients comply, the ... while the response rate for rural practices was higher, 43.2%. Of the 1695 surveys with urban-rural information, 83.6% ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... to rank fifth by 2020 as a worldwide burden of disease.[ 2 , 3 ] Yet COPD fails to receive adequate attention from the ...
Letters / BY: Pearce Wilcox, MD, June 2008
... survival benefit yet demonstrated (17% relative risk or 2.6% absolute risk reduction for salmeterol/fluticasone,[ 2 ] not quite reaching the P<.05 level of significance) and ... or mortality. The larg­est study evaluating (a) ICS/LABA[ 2 ] reported reductions in exacerbation frequency and ...
News October 2008
... open. Each award totals up to $80000 per year for up to 2 years. For more information about the Dr Brian D. Norris ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... active? A systematic review by Bravata and colleagues[ 2 ] extols the use of pedometers to increase physical ...