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Clinical Articles / BY: Janet Henderson, MB, BCh September 2001
... function can cause substantial morbidity and mortality, [4]  particularly in the gastrointestinal tract. [5]  A ... NSAID with a proton pump inhibitor or misoprostol. [4] There are still many unanswered questions regarding COX-2 ... enzymatic activity essential for viral replication. [4]  The structure of the enzyme’s active site is conserved ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD April 2001
... and correlates with classical postmortem indices.[ 4 ] FDOPA may help in the differential diagnosis between ... in neurologically normal patients exposed to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine (MPTP, a neurotoxin that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D.B. Clement, MD December 2001
... at a cellular membrane level with changes in EMF. Sandyk [ 4]  performed a study in which patients with Parkinson’s ... least a double thickness of fabric was used for more than 4 hours per day. Patients were excluded who had stump ... ( Figure 3 ), creatine phosphokinase, myoglobin, ( Figure 4 ), white blood cells, and neutrophils ( Figure 5 ) again ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Sullivan, BA, LLB, MCL July / August 2001
... into force in British Columbia on 28 February 2000.[ 1-4 ] These words and their antonyms are, in practise, used ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD January/February 2001
... the British press ( Sunday Telegraph  24 September 2000:4) states that 39 patients at two fertility clinics in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... and has cardioprotective and osteoprotective effects. [ 3,4,7,8]  Both regular aerobic exercise [ 9]  and periodic ... to 150 mg per day. Higher doses may be neurotoxic. [ 3,4]  Although vitamin E capsules are often used orally to ... and the clinical trials show few side effects. [ 3,4] St. John’s wort has been evaluated in 23 randomized ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Greg Hislop, MD April 2000
... of life lost due to CRC in BC from 1984 to 1993 was 8400.[ 4 ] The age-specific incidence and mortality rates are higher ... change for men and women in incidence of -0.5% and -1.4%, respectively, from 1986 to 1993, and in mortality of -1.4% and -2.5%, respectively, from 1986 to 1995. Previously, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
... rate in Vancouver, with premature death being the norm.[ 3,4 ] These epidemics are the result of the decay of all the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... disruption of services, and greater risk to patients.[4] Immunization—still the best form of protection The best ... frail residents may experience waning immunity within 3 to 4 months, so immunization should be timed to allow optimal ... The replication cycle of influenza virus is less than 4 hours, and abrupt onset is characteristic of illness.[ 7 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... medical education and clinical service provision.[ 2-4 ] Telemedicine seems poised to continue its momentum in ...