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Letters / BY: Peter J. Nunn, MB November 2001
... as safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency!  [ 1]  Fleva has shown experimentally that corrosion of ... day. [ 2]  He also calculates that the transition of only 1 gram of gamma-1 (Ag2Hg3) to AgHg in 10 years would release 170 000 ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD July / August 2001
... accepted diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders. [1]  I am not certain that failure to detect a disorder ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD April 2001
... (FDOPA), is routinely used. First reported in 1983,[ 1 ] FDOPA uptake and storage (as fluoro-dopamine) in the ... the more caudal putamen most severely affected  Figure 1 .[ 5 ] Most often, Parkinson-plus syndromes such as ... demonstrated in neurologically normal patients exposed to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine (MPTP, a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: B. Strauss, RN, BScN, MSc November 2001
... a marked reduction in the incidence of these diseases. [ 1]  However, several published reports have questioned the ... (RI) 0.94 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.60– 1.47]) and there was no temporal clustering between onset of autism and MMR vaccination within the following 1 to 2 years (RI 1.09 [95% CI = 0.76–1.52]). Furthermore, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helena H. Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2001
... children have sensory and cognitive impairment as well. [1,2]  The prevalence has increased over the years from 4 to 5 per 10,000 to 1 in 500. [3,4]  These markedly increased prevalence rates ... is to introduce a clinical practice guideline ( Table 1 ) for physicians and specialists, promoted by BC’s ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2001
... being the incumbent, so it didn’t take a rocket surgeon[ 1 ] to figure out whose name likely wouldn’t be going to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC September 2001
... health care settings, it uses a five-step approach: Step 1   Establish a violence prevention working group and ... program along the following lines is suggested. Level 1. Personal safety education and training This consists of ... training. This level of training can be provided as a 1-day workshop and includes practical personal safety ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chong S. Lee, MD, FRCPC May 2001
... accompanies the development of sudden "on-off" responses. [1]  The threshold dose of levodopa for dyskinesia decreases ... observations were made in primates with unilateral 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) lesions. [4]  In contrast, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D.B. Clement, MD December 2001
... electromagnetic shield at frequencies greater than 1 MHz. It has been suggested that Farabloc has limited ... the alteration of EMF has an effect on biologic systems. [ 1]  Alteration of EMF does not create pain in humans but ... enhance healing in bone fractures and cell metabolism. [ 1,8,9] Anecdotal reports of relief by patients suffering from ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Bernat, MD July / August 2001
... attitudes toward work. We need to ask the questions: 1. What do we want to give? 2. What is expected of us by ...