Search

News September 2008
... or join the Winners Walk of Hope is invited to call 1 877 413-7970 or visit  www.ovariancanada.org  or  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... accepted from 26 weeks’ gestational age (GA) on.[ 1 ]-[ 3 ] By contrast, initial resuscitation and management ... at 22 weeks plus 0 days to 25 weeks plus 6 days between 1 April 1999 and 31 March 2006. Standardized data are ... each week GA for all births and live births (see  Table 1 ). There were only two survivors at 22 weeks’ GA and 9 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... but only 9% said they had actually done that.[ 1 ]  A 2001 study of patients with chronic illness showed ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... compared with adiposity to mortality in older adults.[ 1 ]   An association was found between mortality and ... one in­crease physical activity by the equiv­alent of 1 mile a day. This is close to moving from the unfit to fit ...
ICBC / BY: Tanya Heuchert, BA, LLB, June 2008
... accessible, and affordable for the general public.[ 1 ] Over the past number of years, the task force has been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... problems for people living in those communities.[ 1 ]  The Northern Medical Program (NMP) and Island Medical ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), March 2008
... ascribed therapeutic properties and to enhance potency.[ 1 ] Heavy metals often found in Ayur­vedic remedies include ... Ayurvedic remedies is well documented in the literature.[ 1 - 5 ] During the traditional preparation of bhasmas the ... purchased in India to “increase vigor” ( Figure 1 ). His blood lead level was 5.2 µmol/L (threshold for ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
Drs Krausz and Marsh [ BCMJ 2008;50(1):15 ] refer to the benefits of methadone maintenance ... should be viewed as an object-lesson to all researchers.[ 1 ] We take issue with the comparison of stimulant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... for limb salvage and increased mortality for the patient.[ 1 - 4] In 2004, 84 patients with soft tissue sarcomas were ... per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family practice physicians in BC will encoun­ter a ... to a multidisciplinary centre have inferior outcomes.[ 1 - 4 ]  A multidisciplinary centre has the advantages of ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... (A1c of 7.0% to 7.9%) and lower than at study entry.  [1]  The intensive treatment group received multiple classes ... rosiglitazone, acarbose, insulin, and exenatide, a GLP-1 analog (a new class of anti-diabetic therapy not yet ... The intensive-therapy glycemic group had a median A1c at 1 year of 6.4% with a relative increase in overall mortality ...