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Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn A. Montgomery, MB September 2002
... PID as compared to women who have never had the disease. [5]  Evidence is increasing that acute PID with abdominal ... produce lactic acid, which maintains a low pH (<4.5) and inhibits the growth of most other vaginal bacteria. In ... to 0.4% to 1.0% with doxycycline or azithromycin and to 0.5% with metronidazole plus azithromycin. Unfortunately, the ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2002
... (UBC Medicine 1965) died quietly, early in the morning of 5 March 2002. —ED Editorials Give your head a shake ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris Whittington, MB BS, MBA, FCFP, FACRRM December 2002
... accounts for 80% to 100% of those with clinical HHC. [2,4,5]  Among those of European ancestry (including both ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD July/August 2002
... as far as it will go in each direction, and hold for about 5 seconds. Then move it in the opposite direction as far as it will go and hold for another 5 seconds.  • Repeat each exercise about five times for each direction (except #5 which can be done up to 100 times).  • Expect some ...
Letters / BY: G. Henderson, MB April 2002
... visit to the emergency room, and I ended my day at around 5:50 p.m. after making a number of phone calls on behalf of ... There I show up at 1:00 p.m. and I leave shortly after 5:00 p.m. I do not have to make any phone calls, I do not ...
Letters / BY: Michael Livingston, MD October 2002
... 2002 whiplash injury articles in the [BCMJ 2002;44(5):236-263  and 2002;44(6):296-321 ] interested me as I ... heads “flail through a great range of movement…” [5]  Yet, checking with the pit steward and the insurance ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James R. Taylor, MD, PhD June 2002
... studies were not visible on postmortem radiographs. [5-8]  Even magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) grossly ... cervical spines used a band saw to cut regular thickness 2.5 mm sagittal slices. This blunt trauma fatality study ... often multilevel and were most frequent at C3-4 and C4-5. Both rim lesions and avulsions were seen at the upper disc ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... transferrin saturation has been estimated to be as low as $5. The cost of the genetic testing can be as low as $20, and ... may have been overestimated in previous studies. [ 4,5] If hemochromatosis is so common, why did this Vancouver ... non-expressing homozygote has been estimated to range from 5% to 50% of cases and is particularly common in women. At ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD September 2002
... on encountering a near-lethal illness,”[ BCMJ  2002;44(5):278].  May I add that there is an aspect, and a very ...
Letters / BY: Ron De Marchi, MD May 2002
... to GPs; they are simply misplaced! With the pending 11.5% fee increase, the BCMA has the power to halt this trend or to accelerate it. If our 0100 fee is increased by 11.5%, others will move toward the WIC type practice, as a ...