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Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... past century, the 65-plus population has increased from 5% of Canada’s population to its record of 12% today (see  ... 140 000 additional people per year, contributing only a 0.5% increase to a population of 30 million. If Canada can ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen G.F. Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2000
... colorectal metastasis to the liver have up to a 40% 5-year survival, and patients with multiple metastases (up to ... (<2 cm) hepatomas are the most responsive. HCCs less than 5 cm have a complete ablation rate of approximately 70% to ... recently been conducted using emulsified Lipiodol with 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin C for the treatment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Iain G.M. Cleator, MB, CHB, FRCSC, FRCSE, FRCS, FACS April 2000
... screening results in reduction in mortality from CRC.[ 3-5 ] This reduction is due to detection of cancer at an ... for those fully compliant was 30%. Hardcastle et al.[ 5 ] have reported a mortality reduction of 15% using the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... time” in rural communities have not yet worked.[ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ] Review of the literature reveals that the problem of ... 17 communities with populations between 3500 and 6999, 5 communities with populations between 7000 and 10999, 8 ... than 7000 people. The differences are clearly apparent by 5 years, and remain pretty much throughout the 21 year study ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... in the M2 protein confer resistance to amantadine.[ 5 ] Amantadine is only effective against influenza A, not ... control—Changing standards of practice (J/F 2000) 5. Administer influenza antivirals to unvaccinated household ... reduced symptomatic influenza significantly, usually by 1.5 to 2 days.[ 11-14 ] In febrile patients, one study of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... may be necessary where homes are already inhabited.[ 5 ] What is the risk associated with bats? Bat rabies was ... gloves should be worn if direct contact is a possibility.[ 5 ] Since the brain and/or spinal cord are required for ... a person previously unimmunized against rabies consists of 5 spaced doses of human diploid cell rabies vaccine (given on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Greg Hislop, MD April 2000
... 2060 new cases (12.6% of all new cases) and 660 deaths (8.5% of all cancer-related deaths) were estimated for CRC in ... with significant gains in long-term survivors.[ 5 ]  These trends are seen throughout Canada, with an ... annual percent change for men and women in incidence of -0.5% and -1.4%, respectively, from 1986 to 1993, and in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... a model other jurisdictions are seeking to emulate.[ 4,5 ] In the United States, for example, training programs are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... influenza is yearly resident and staff vaccination.[ 5 ] Elderly, frail residents may experience waning immunity ... can emerge during treatment, it should be limited to 3 to 5 days (or up to 2 days after resolution) and patients being ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC June 2000
... Clinical Faculty Association was formed in March 1998.[ 5 ] Clinical faculty have a plethora of role models with ...