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Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... (BNP), and C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) ( Table 1 ). There are many conditions that are associated with an increase in NPs ( Table 2 ). [1]  The final common pathway in the vast majority of these ... system, and the endothelin pathways [1]  that can ultimately lead to myocardial apoptosis and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathryn Hornby, DMD, MLS, CertMinf July/August 2004
... in the traditional flow of scientific communication. [1]  One example of this is that a publisher with control of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marie D. Hay, MD, DCH, DRCOG, FRCPC, MRCP(UK) April 2004
... to forced labour and a contemporary form of slavery.” [1]  The term “child” is defined by the United Nations ... Other forms include child sex tourism and early marriage. [1]  Nobody really knows how many children are victims of ... the club’s computer library, which contained more than 1 million child porn images. [4] Chat rooms for children have ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... (STD) guidelines were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1]  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the ... The pretest counseling guidelines currently in use in BC [1]  were designed to promote physician-patient dialogue on ... response rate of 34%. Male practitioners accounted for 62.1% of the total and female practitioners for 37.9%. The ...
Clinical Articles June 2004
... in PDA use among Canadian physicians from 2000 to 2001. [1] Physicians able to look up drugs, dosages, ... on their complexity and scope, with most ranging from 0.1 MB to 0.3 MB in size. iSilo (US$12.50)  www.isilo.com/ ... KB:  Kilobyte (1000 bytes or characters). MB:  Megabyte (1 million bytes or characters). Memory:  Storage space to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E. Jane Garland, MD, FRCPC December 2004
... about antidepressants in children and adolescents ( Table 1 ), physicians have been asking anew: How should we treat ... in suicidal ideation and attempts, as well as hostility. [1-3]  Within 2 months, this warning was followed by similar ... in depression trials but also in anxiety disorder trials. [1-5,7,29,30]  New labeling and advisories [8]  emphasize ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... head injuries in children younger than 2 years of age. [1]  “Shaken baby syndrome” is a term used in the medical ... 3 years of age, with most cases presenting from birth to 1 year. It should be noted, however, that all that is needed ... and extend out to the periphery of the retina ( Figure 1 ). There may also be evidence of retinal detachment or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.L. Davies September 2004
... population will experience low back pain in their lives, [1]  yet this condition is poorly understood and often poorly ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, FCFP, DrPH May 2004
... in the Downtown Eastside heterosexual population [1]  while elsewhere, the epidemic was based in men who have ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2004
... jurisdictions that have similar tracking capability. [1,2]  The overall rate of antibiotic use among outpatients ... between 1996 and 2003. This means that on average, 1.6% of British Columbians are consuming antibiotics on any ... established programs to track and control consumption. [1,3]  Moreover, BC consumes proportionately far more in the ...