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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 ...