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Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... April 2005 is titled, “MDs set wait list benchmarks.” [2]  Here the medical profession has devised a scheme that ...
Editorials / BY: Shaila Misri, MD, FRCPC March 2005
... programs are now in operation throughout the world, and 2 years ago the First World Congress on Women’s Mental ... its humble start, the program has evolved over the past 2 decades into a flagship provincial program, unique in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
... arithmetical equation of Cockcroft and Gault (see  Figure 2 ), which uses serum creatinine, age, and weight. [2]  The new BC CKD guidelines [3]  recommend the ... Disease (MDRD) equation for calculating GFR (see  Figure 2 ). This equation was originally developed by Levey and ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS December 2005
... daily functions. I decided to stop the chemotherapy and, 2 years later, am progressively feeling better. I cannot do ... unsettling for some readers, particularly during the first 2 years following surgery and treatment. Supplementary ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Eddy, MD May 2005
... in a 24-hour day. The average need is just over 8 hours. [2]   • Adults who get fewer than 5 hours of sleep will ... accidents. [5]   • Chronic loss of sleep, defined as 2 to 3 hours per night less than the ideal for an individual, ... hour for hour but only by extended periods of deep sleep. [2]   • Sleep requirements in adults do not lessen with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Adrian, MD, FRCPC September 2005
... in asymptomatic people ranging up to 30% to 60%. [1,2]  Asymptomatic MRI abnormalities can include complete ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Diana Carter, MBBS March 2005
... and 17% at 35 to 36 weeks gestation (see the  Table ). [1,2]  The course of depression varies throughout pregnancy: ... therapies for these disorders will appear in Part 2 of this theme issue in April 2005.) Several risk factors ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC June 2005
... randomized, placebo-controlled studies—AFCAPS/TexCAPS [2]  and PROSPER. [3] While the authors agree that statins ... or nonfatal MI, sudden cardiac death, or unstable angina. [2]  The TI evaluation of these two trials, on the other ... risk reduction in PROSPER for the primary endpoint was 2.1% ( P =.014), while in AFCAPS/TexCAPS it was 4.1% ( P ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2005
... was $294, while today it is $236 (a 1981 dollar is worth $2.11 in 2004). I have cited examples from the field of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Xanthoula Kostaras, BSc April 2005
... provide complete symptom control should be used.  Table 2  outlines the most commonly prescribed psychotropic ... All trimesters Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) Table 2. Effects of exposure to psychotropic medications during ...