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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC November 2003
... concern following waterborne outbreaks in Walkerton [1,2]  and North Battleford. [3,4] Cryptosporidiosis (long ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... is instituted when the patient is symptomatic, or about 2 years if instituted earlier in the disease course. ... (see, for example, Seidenfeld and colleagues [2] ) have shown that surgical castration is equivalent to ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2003
... this item in formal negotiations began more than 21/2 years ago. A subcommittee of the Tariff Committee was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John R. Graham, PhD October 2003
... million for calcium channel blockers (CCBs). For histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) and proton pump inhibitors ... year. External research does not support these claims. [1,2] Schneeweiss and colleagues claim savings of $6.7 million ... inhibitors, whereas Grootendorst and colleagues claim $1.2 million per year in the first 2 years, a huge difference. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc May 2003
... Services. • Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF): 1 cc to 2 cc should be collected in each of two tubes without any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Liu-Ambrose, MSc, PT, PhD (C) December 2003
... humans with untreated complete ACL tears.  • Group 2—12 sheep with three types of ACL reconstruction: ... (LAD); Leeds-Keio artificial ligament.  • Group 3—2 humans with failed ACL (semitendinous) reconstruction. In ... absence of corpuscles and free nerve endings. In Group 2, mechanoreceptors were present in ACL reconstructions with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... relative to more recent reports from other centres. [2-4] The British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) provided ... recommended to decrease local recurrence rates for stage 2 and stage 3 rectal cancers ( Table 1 ). Preoperative ... stage 4 cancer had a 17% survival rate (n = 83). Stage 2 and stage 3 cancers had survival rates of 78% and 72%, ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD March 2003
... and lipids to CDA recommended goals of <130/80 and LDL <2.5 respectively (for which, incidentally, we have very ... tools (which render normoglycemia virtually impossible). [2-5] This is not to diminish the importance of efforts at ... therapy alone as the pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes.” [1] According to Berger, physicians providing ...
Editorials / BY: Jack Taunton, MD November 2003
... Clinics were surveyed for incidence of injuries over a 2-year period, quantifying training limitation and training ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... as prolonged high-dose postoperative treatment. [2]  Subsequently, the Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial showed ...