BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
June 2008
... 5000 are treated for cervical intraepithelial neoplasm 2 and 3. This program has reduced the incidence and ... Gardasil is given in three doses over 6 months (at 0, 2, and 6 months). Studies are ongoing to establish duration ... protection but currently indicate a minimum of 5 years.[ 2 ] Mathematical modeling of HPV 16 antibody decay suggests ...
Letters /
BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC,
October 2008
... for the Interior Health Authority (IHA) for over 2 years, and for the Northern Health Authority (NHA) for the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Wen Q. Gan, MD, MSc,
April 2008
... include persistent inflammation and oxidative stress.[ 2 , 3 ] Together, impaired lung function and systemic effects ... local and systemic inflammation and oxidative stress.[ 2 , 3 ] Although the hypotheses related to these possible ... underlying severity of airflow obstruction ( Figure 2 ).[ 11 ] In patients with advanced COPD, respiratory ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC,
July/August 2008
... disability compared with those in the general population.[ 2 ] Although specialized outpatient and inpatient mental ... be considered reliable in their self-report (Cases 1 and 2). In other cases, a patient may have an Axis I psychiatric ... There is an urgent need for such a facility in BC. Case 2: “Laura,” in her 20s, has mild DD and lives in a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA,
November 2008
... is inadequate (e.g., nonrestorative or disturbed).[ 1 ],[ 2 ] This problem has been declared a major public health ... also indicates frequent sleep deprivation in children.[ 2 ] In addition, a large group of children with medical and ... and their families follow up on sleep difficulties. 2. Structured knowledge dissemination among professional ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ali Al Talag, MD,
March 2008
... 1 ] and persists long after the cessation of smoking,[ 2 ] and that the inflammatory processes of COPD are readily ... in FEV 1 to less than 80% of predicted ( Figure 2 ). FEV 1 has traditionally been used to grade severity of COPD (see Table 2 from Pharmacological management of stable chronic ...
Obituaries /
BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH
June 2008
... William Carlos Williams’s poetry or The Problem of Pain[ 2 ] while the rest of us swotted our anatomy textbooks. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
September 2008
... that doctors tend to settle near where they train[ 2 , 3 ] and that MDs of rural origin are more inclined to ... of their core obstetrics rotation in Duncan, and their 2-week mandatory orthopaedics rotation in Duncan, Nanaimo, ...
News /
BY: Susan Attridge, RRT,
April 2008
... the National Institutes of Health’s Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, ...
News /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
July/August 2008
... al. Toronto: McGraw Hill, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-146633-2. Hardcover, 2754 pages plus index. $199. Come on, admit it, ...