Editorials /
BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC
April 2008
... Paul’s Hospital Editorials Guest editorial: COPD, Part 2: Emerging from the dark, dismal past into a bright, hopeful ...
Premise /
BY: Jamie Graham,
April 2008
... results, which we were promised would be complete in 2 or 3 years. Health Minister Tony Clement has since ... officers assigned to the challenging beat of District 2 in which the SIS continues to operate. Mandatory treatment ...
Obituaries /
BY: Eldon Lee, MD,
July/August 2008
... days a year. A telephone was by his bed and if it rang at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning for an emergency, it was ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC,
October 2008
... in the 2007 version of the ACC/AHA document ( Table 2 ) involve a shift toward recommending prophylaxis only for ... The patients who meet the criteria in part A of Table 2 and are undergoing a procedure listed in part B should be ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
January/February 2008
... was having a discussion of preferences for their care.[ 2 ] It seems it is up to physicians to begin this dialogue. ... inserted despite the recurrence of her pancreatic tumor 2 months after surgery. When she expressed exasperation and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stephan F. van Eeden, MD, PhD, FRCP,
April 2008
... costs of treatment and management are estimated to be $2 billion a year.[ 2 ] COPD is associated with a significant systemic ... Paul’s Hospital, smoking cessation was addressed in 76.2% of subjects, compared with 57.5% in a general respiratory ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
September 2008
... a monthly maximum. (Read more about POP below.) Scenario #2 All other factors are the same as in Scenario #1, but Dr ...
ICBC /
BY: Elizabeth Heinz,
December 2008
... enforcement of Tackling Violent Crime Act (Bill C-2), police officers who suspect a driver is impaired by any ... driving a vehicle for 1 to 3 years (first offence) and 2 to 5 years (subsequent offences). A maximum 10-year ... that nearly 20% of Canadian drivers had driven within 2 hours of taking some sort of medication (or other drug) ...
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 ...