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Premise / BY: Cara L. McCulloch, MD July/August 2023
... a projected economic burden of US$300 billion by 2030.[ 5 , 6 ] In Canada, rates of physical activity are low, with ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2023
According to Statistics Canada, there are over 5.3 million people in British Columbia,[ 1 ] and nearly ... and the demand for prescriptions dropped dramatically.[ 3-5 ] Of the risks described in the Women’s Health Initiative ... acetate, those taking both hormones for longer than 5 years had a relative risk of 1.26 for developing breast ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jacqueline Maloney, PhD September 2023
... mental well-being during this challenging time; more than 5 decades of evidence has demonstrated that positive ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rohit Vijh, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2023
... can range from asymptomatic infection to severe.[ 5 ] Avian influenza viruses in circulation have an incubation ... period in humans of 2 to 10 days (with most averaging 2 to 5 days).[ 5 ] Who to test for avian influenza and report to public ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... participated in this study, which represents between 5% and 10% of the physicians who are actively practising in ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... diagnostic rates still remain well below prevalence.[ 5 ] Awareness of ADHD in the general population has risen, ... symptoms that affect at least two areas of function.[ 5 ] A reliable primary care diagnosis of ADHD requires ... screening tool that has high specificity (99.5%) and moderate sensitivity (68.7%) in general population ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC April 2023
... of lung cancer cases are diagnosed at stage 4, when the 5-year survival rate is less than 10%.[ 7 ] However, when lung cancers are diagnosed at stage 1, the 5-year survival rate is between 73% and 90%; hence the ... the Box . A 6-year lung cancer risk score greater than 1.5% is required to participate in the screening program. This ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: A. Cherukupalli, MD, MHSc September 2023
... in arachidonic acid biosynthesis. Through the COX-1 and 5-lipoxygenase pathways, there is an overproduction of ... emergency department and a higher rate of intubations.[ 5 ] Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis presents with ... have the disease.[ 8 ] NERD has a prevalence of 0.3% to 2.5%, and it is estimated that there are 1.5 million patients ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... payments physicians receive, and they need to do it now.[ 5-7 ] The inequities in the medical funding model need to be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... of the Provincial Health Services Authority. It serves 5.1 million residents of BC and Yukon through six regional ... are specific factors contributing to burnout in oncology.[ 5 , 6 ] Despite these issues, over the last decade, the core ... felt they had input into administrative policies [ Figure 5 ]. Fewer oncologists in BC also had a sense of control over ...