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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC June 2006
... injury [1]  and long-term decline in lung function [2]  in law enforcement personnel dealing with clandestine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP October 2006
... inclement weather, solar radiation, and thermal stress. [2,3]  In addition, viticulture workers are at risk of ... succinate and citrate. The pH of wines ranges from 3.2 to 3.8. Winemakers may do 5 to 50 tastings per day, holding ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H.F. Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCPC, April 2006
... death by 31%, regardless of age or use of chemotherapy. [1,2]  This benefit is sustained even at 15 years from initial diagnosis. [2] Although well tolerated by the majority of women, ... thromboembolic and uterine cancer due to tamoxifen is 0.2% per decade, which is small compared with the absolute ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... infant should receive postexposure prophylaxis at birth. [2,3]  Postexposure prophylaxis consists of hepatitis B ... vertical transmission of HBV still occurs in 1% to 2% of infants; [4]  rates up to 6.5% have been reported for ... to mothers with HBV infection over a 7-year period found 2.3% were infected with HBV (oral communication, Ameeta ...
News December 2006
... Mississauga: Doubleday Canada, 2006. ISBN 987-0-385-66277-2. Paperback, 344 pages. $14.95. Are we all going to die? If ... about these initiatives. Next steps Over the next 2 to 3 months, PITO will be focused on the following ... 2006–07 salary and service contract rates increase of 2.84%. All of these rates will increase by 2%, 2%, and 3% in ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS June 2006
... General compensation increase is 10.4% over 4 years (3%, 2%, 2%, and 3%). Particular increases will be calculated once the ... and the Rural Education Action Plan will receive $3.2 million between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2010; for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... estimate adverse events in hospitals in New York State. [2,3]  Other researchers have since further developed and ... in Canada suggests that between 141 250 and 232 250 of the 2.5 million similar admissions in the year 2000 would have ... than threefold variation in the results—10.6% versus 3.2% for the Australia and US studies when known differences ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Areta B. Wong, BSc, March 2006
... in published reports for the periods 1955–1962, [2]  1963–1970, [3]  and 1971–1986. [4]  We continued ... obstetric deaths in 1987–2004 are shown in  Table 2 . The most common causes of direct deaths were hemorrhage ... another occurred following C-section. One patient died 2 days following vaginal delivery from group A streptococci ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... clinician, Dr John Abramson’s Overdosed America. [2]  Or he might consider rereading the classic book, The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD November 2006
... anymore. He says, “I can’t think straight.” Patient 2 is a 78-year-old independent-living woman who has had a few ... are typically affected by a mild traumatic brain injury [2-7]  include: •  Attention:  There can be particular ... He may also need some treatment of his anxiety. Patient 2, the elderly woman referred with a possible mild traumatic ...