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Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... the behaviors that put them at risk of disease and death. [1,2]  The health of drug users is further complicated by ... a cruise ship destination. [16]   Conventional strategy 1: Law enforcement The primary response to the public health ... needles substantially reduces the transmission of HIV-1 [8,26]  as well as HIV risk behaviors. [27-29] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Liu-Ambrose, MSc, PT, PhD (C) December 2003
... of movement, and the position of the knee joint. [1-3]  Thus, altered neuromuscular function secondary to ... mechanoreceptors in the following three groups: • Group 1—20 humans with untreated complete ACL tears.  • Group ... with failed ACL (semitendinous) reconstruction. In Group 1, the results indicated that while morphologically normal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Malfair, MD July/August 2003
... separates the lesion from muscularis propria ( Figure 1 ). Hypoechoic thickening of muscularis propria indicates T2 ... local extent of rectal carcinoma is 80% to 90%. [1]  Strengths of this type of imaging include high spatial ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM March 2003
... sensitivity (100 viruses per gram for RT-PCR compared to 1 000 000 for EM). Moreover, by analyzing the sequence of the ... has now been documented to be 7 to 14 days compared to 1 to 3 days based on EM methodology, although it remains ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Ryan, MSc November 2003
... for all questions in the TFS is the same. Questions 1 through 7 are scored out of 10 and question 8 is scored out ... population during the first year are shown in  Table 1  . One fact not shown is the large gender discrepancy ... had body mass index (BMI) less than 19 (F = 4.3%, M = 1.0%;  P  = .002), and a BMI between 20 and 26 (F = 69.8%, ...
Letters / BY: M.M. Moran, MB May 2003
... January/February 2003 issue of your journal [ BCMJ 2003;45(1):16-19 ]. I find it distressing that a person who lives and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kathy McInnes, BSc(Pharm) September 2003
... Serum creatinine (umol/L) × 0.81   Since 1997, more than 1.2 million digoxin prescriptions have been dispensed to over ... fibrillation to help control ventricular response rate. [1,2]  The 2001 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Consensus ... maintenance dose in adults is 0.125 mg to 0.25 mg daily. [1]  Recent information indicates that levels above 1.3 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... duty to warn, but the two are fundamentally different. [1,2]  The duty to warn occurs when the health care ... infected with HIV but who are unaware of their infection. [1-15]  The partners of index cases (people newly diagnosed ... condom use, from less than 5% at baseline to 71% at 1 month follow-up and 77% at 18 month follow-up. [20] There ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Taunton, MD December 2003
... and jumping, such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer. [1] Numerous conservative treatments (ice, rest, heat, ... NSAIDs or acetaminophen for any chronic condition within 1 week of randomization visit. • History or physical ... session. The fourth and fifth treatments were given 1 week apart. The researchers and the subjects were not aware ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... cancers are believed to develop from adenomatous polyps [1]  over a period of about 10 years. Screening for ... of colorectal cancer screening programs. [1,8]  All three screening methods are sufficiently ... and (nonrehydrated) fecal occult blood. Method Figure 1  illustrates the assumed colorectal cancer process and was ...