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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD September 2008
... diseases such as cancer (i.e., colon and skin), Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and ... Canada recommendations are 400 IUs for infants under age 1 and those over 50 years and 200 IUs for all others up to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Fawziah Marra, PharmD December 2008
... agents has become a major public health threat.[ 1 ] Few novel antibiotics have been developed as therapeutic ... use has declined recently in the northeast [ Figure 1 ]. An evaluation of the specific classes shows that ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, January/February 2008
... by Premier Gordon Campbell in September 2006 and concluded 1 year later.   During that time the process in­volved 78 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2008
... I. Adopt a disability prevention model:      1. Increase awareness of how rarely medically excused days ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... average age of diagnosis for multiple sclerosis is 30.[ 1 ] • Almost all spinal cord injuries (97%) occur before ...
Letters / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... and NHA (a total of 22 beds for a catchment area of about 1 million people) means that we cannot designate beds for any ...
News March 2008
... and having a baby or planning a pregnancy in the period of 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009? If you are, then it is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... cause of cancer death among nonsmokers in North America.[ 1 ] The incidence in­creases significantly after age 50.  ... screening.  A study by Rabeneck and Paszat[ 3 ] of nearly 1 million screen-eligible Ontario patients age 50 to 59 ... risk is that for every 10 mSv of exposure, a patient has a 1 in 1000 lifetime risk of developing cancer.  This ...
News September 2008
... the CMA web site:  www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1368/la_id/1.htm  (through selecting “About CMA,” and “Awards ... Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6, or phone the committee coordinator at 1 800 663-7336 extension 2280. Nominations must be sent to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA, November 2008
... sleep is inadequate (e.g., nonrestorative or disturbed).[ 1 ],[ 2 ] This problem has been declared a major public ... that 15 million children are affected by inadequate sleep.1 A Canadian survey also indicates frequent sleep deprivation ... causes. For example, up to 80% of infants younger than 1 year have transient sleep difficulties that are no more ...