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News / BY: Mohsin Rashid, MBBS, FRCPC, June 2009
... in the world. It is estimated that celiac disease affects 1% of the population but 90% of these individuals remain ... celiac disease among health professionals remains poor.[ 1,2 ] The mean delay in diag­nosis of celiac disease in ... • Epilepsy • Ataxia • Thyroid disease • Type 1 diabetes Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is “celiac ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, October 2009
... decisions about the care of individual patients.”[ 1 ] The modern history of clinical trials began in the 1940s, ... to perish from scurvy.[ 3 ] In 1747 Dr James Lind ( Figure 1 ), a naval surgeon on board HMS Salisbury, carried out an ...
Obituaries / BY: Barry Turchen, MD January/February 2009
... surgery at Chandigarh, India, in 1971 and came to Canada 1 year later, accompanied by his wife, Surrinder. Upon ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, May 2009
... (disease is caused by poisonous vapors in the air).[ 1 ] Previously, in 1849, Dr John Snow had published an essay ... El Tor strain, was especially virulent, and by 1994 over 1 million cases with 9642 deaths were reported from 13 ... According to Dr Robert Morris,[ 12 ] “around the world 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water sources and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: D. Barry Carruthers, MD, CCFP, CIME, FCBOM, July/August 2009
... 5 µm are deposited in the upper airway. Particles in the 1-µm range travel to the alveoli. Instead of being engulfed ... forced vital capacity, reduced forced expiratory volume in 1 second, and reduced total lung capacity. Diagnosis If you ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, December 2009
... AF is more than that for all other arrhythmias combined.[ 1 ] In addition to reduced quality of life, functional ... - 4 ] While the overall prevalence of AF is approximately 1% in the general population, the incidence and prevalence increases significantly with age, affecting 1 in 25 over the age of 60 years and nearly 1 in 10 over the ...
News / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2009
... Desktop Publishing Centre Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-9694983-1-5. Paperback, 536 pages. $43 (Duthie Books); $47.95 (UBC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc June 2009
...  and  Streptococcus pyogenes  (see the  Figure ).[ 1 ]  S. pneumoniae  (pneumococcus) is the most common cause ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2009
... be trying to achieve? An article by Ross and Janiszewski[ 1 ] references multiple studies showing that a reduction in ... men. This cohort study determined mortality rates of 27.1, 23.6, and 18.4 per 1000 person years in groups with low, ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP April 2009
... Levy ( “Solving the primary care crisis,” BCMJ 2009;51[1]:12-13 ). As an FMG who has practised in the distant ...