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Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD July / August 2001
... The average surgeon in this province now has less than 1 day per week of operating time. Patients who come through ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin C.L. Lai, MD, MSc April 2001
... 50 years as the average age of the population increases.[ 1 ] PD is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder ... the crude annual incidence rates of PD ranged from 1.5 per 100,000 population in China in 1986 to 14.8 in ... men than in women in most studies, usually ranging from a 1.2:1 ratio up to a 1.5:1 ratio. Ethnic distribution The ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson October 2001
... is US$71 plus GST, approximately $120, from ACP–ASIM at 1 800 523-1546. The Library has a number of sample issues for ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD May 2001
... parking placards to those who genuinely need them."[ 1 ] I take exception to two points made in this commentary. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charles Brasfield, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2001
... boarding schools for First Nations children in Canada.[ 1 ] In British Columbia the schools operated from 1863 to ... of Indian residential schools affecting their people.[ 1 ] Their report indicates that, across Canada, there were 11 ... criteria should be. Those criteria presented in  Table 1 , modelled after DSM-IV,[ 3 ] are simply offered as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hugh Freeman, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACG September 2001
... the clinical features of childhood celiac disease.[ 1 ] After the Second World War, Dicke and colleagues from ... lamina propria by lymphocytes and plasma cells ( Figure 1 ). Absorptive cells in untreated celiac disease appear ... appearance. These disorders must be excluded ( Table 1 ) before celiac disease can be diagnosed.[ 7,8 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.A. Hurwitz, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPC May 2001
... of uniform criteria for diagnosing depression. Cummings [1]  reviewed nine studies conducted between 1987 and 1990 ... even though verbalized suicidal ideation is not uncommon. [1]  In the Vancouver Hospital Movement Disorder Clinic ...
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 ...