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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP October 2022
... offset sarcopenia have been reviewed in the literature.[ 4 ] Sarcopenia must be recognized as a preventable and ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... He waited at walk-in clinics and looked on Medimap for 4 days. No access. He eventually went to emergency and waited ... Their net income is in the range of less than $100 000.[ 4 ] Where can a family doctor make a better living? As a ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2022
... and describes the professionals who work there. Part 4, the bulk of the book, is devoted to home remedies for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP December 2022
... with impacts persisting for multiple years.[ 3 , 4 ] Our personal clinical experience from living in flooded ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... binding to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor,[ 4 ] the receptor required for SARS-CoV-2 to attach and enter ... numbers of ivermectin calls [ Figure 1 ]. Over the almost 4-year study period, 20 calls concerned exposures to ... COVID-19 related calls were from the exposed individual, 4 from a friend or relation, and 8 from a health care ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee May 2022
... diagnosed rather than being caused by severe COVID-19.[ 4 ] The COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee has developed a set ... these treatments based on local epidemiological data.[ 3 , 4 ] Who is eligible to receive COVID-19 treatments? Adjusting ... of common interactions and management tips. Practice Tool #4: Pharmacist Counselling Checklist. A quick-reference guide ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... 3 ] C.    Menopause: Mood, Sleep, and Cognition[ 4 ] D.    Menopause and Sexuality[ 5 ] E.    Menopause ... in the chest, rises upward, and lasts an average of 3 to 4 minutes.[ 12 ] Up to 20% of women experience severe ... of vasomotor symptoms during menopausal transition is 7.4 years.[ 15 ] The 2021 guideline reflects this updated ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Abdullah Al Mamun, MBBS, MPH March 2022
... of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada.[ 4 ] BC PharmaNet prescription data from our last prepandemic ... 3 days of cotrimoxazole, or 1 day of fosfomycin.[ 4 ] DOT for nitrofurantoin and other specific drugs often ... more than is needed to resolve most pyelonephritis cases.[ 4 ] For cellulitis, current guidance emphasizes 5 to 7 days ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Omair Arshad, MD July/August 2022
... with the rapid uptake of e-cigarettes among youth,[ 2-4 ] is cause for concern and warrants further research. Our ... and Drugs Survey (which included all ages) found that 15.4% of Canadians reported ever trying an e-cigarette, while ... versus 10%) compared with the 2016–17 CSTADS results.[ 4 ] Data from the US are similar: past 30-day e-cigarette use ...
MDs To Be / BY: Alessandro Cau, BSc (Hons) November 2022
... associated with a slower progression of kidney disease.[ 4 ] More specifically, in patients with type 2 diabetes, ... doubling of serum creatinine, kidney failure, and death.[ 4 ] Since then, there have been numerous cardiovascular ... the protective effects of SGLT2i on the kidney.[ 4-9 ] Although the benefits of SGLT2i are not unique to the ...