President's Comment /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
May 2008
... more ways than I can imagine!). As an added incentive, a 1-day CME event will be held on Friday, 6 June. For the last ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
July/August 2008
... renewal package. All MEDOC travel insurance renews on 1 September each year, regardless of the date that you ...
Letters /
BY: Kathleen Makuch, BSW,
October 2008
... a parent of a son with Down syndrome, autism, and now type 1 diabetes. I would just like to add that when my son (who ... in my family history). I had him tested, and he is type 1. He is now on insulin, and life is much better! ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS,
March 2008
... of acute shoulder pain. The calcium is most commonly found 1 to 2 cm from the insertion of the supraspinatus tendon and, ... Adult Low Back Pain and Work-related Asthma. Each of these 1.5-hour sessions is accredited for 1.5 Mainpro-C credits (=3 Mainpro-M1 credits). The foundation ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA
May 2008
... 64, mortality rates have declined steadily since 1986.[ 1 ] This improvement has been attributed to two main factors: ... cancer epidemiology The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9 for women in BC.[ 4 ] Approximately 2700 BC women are ... for population-based screening in 1997.[ 10 ] Table 1 uses the PHAC format to provide the most recent ...
Letters /
BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC
September 2008
... and, more recently, evidence for radiation therapy.[ 1 , 2 ] The recommendations of the SMPBC are based on ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD,
November 2008
... decision-makers for their not-yet-competent children.[ 1 ],[ 2 ] Nested within surrogate decision making is an ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Dan McCarthy, MD
January/February 2008
... Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. Effective 1 January 2008, the new Complex Care Fee will include only ... of the following conditions: • Diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2). • Chronic renal failure (GFR values less than ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Wen Q. Gan, MD, MSc,
April 2008
... systemic inflammation, and cardiovascular disease ( Figure 1 ).[ 1 ] The evidence for these effects comes from strong ... combined with medications, systemic inflammation,[ 1 ] tissue hypoxia, or a combination of these. Low body ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
June 2008
... 9 to 13 years as this is an age prior to sexual activity.[ 1 ] However, even sexually active girls and women are ...