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Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin C.L. Lai, MD, MSc April 2001
... Epidemiology has played an important role not only in health care and planning but also as a tool for the ... PD in British Columbia found school teachers and those in health-care service occupations have significantly increased ... respiratory tract infections circulating in school and health-care facilities.[ 25 ] However, referral bias and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Teresa Marie Kope, MD, FRCPC June 2001
... as a brief screening device to be administered by GPs or health visitors to 18-month-olds. It was initially part of a ...  Although the CHAT, when used as a screen by a community health nurse, is highly specific (i.e., it screened out ... the birth of a child and continues as part of periodic health exams. The family physician, community health nurse, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barry Rich, MD December 2001
... to the world) and the Tulane University School of Public Health. [ 5]  This revealed that 500 000 vasectomies were ... men with respect to their sexuality and their partners’ health. Latex allergy occurs in 15% of the population, and is most prevalent in health care workers, including doctors. In Vancouver, The ...
Letters / BY: G. Kenefick, MB July / August 2001
... jaded in view of all the other daily cliches about “health care crisis” in the daily news, but it is now an ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD January/February 2001
... patients at the assisted conception unit of the National Health Service’s North Hampshire Hospital and 29 were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.A. Hurwitz, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPC May 2001
... and more irritability, sadness, and concern with health. [6]  Depression associated with agitation creates ... This denial of depression is often frustrating to the health professional since it occurs in the face of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG November 2001
... study of HRT, current or past, is the Women’s Health Initiative. One segment of this study is comparing the ... and a synthetic progestin) with placebo on postmenopausal health, and initial results are expected to appear in 2007. ... pharmacological approaches to optimizing postmenopausal health, either in development or currently in use in other ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July / August 2001
... self-help booklets had no significant impact on the use of health services. I wonder if anyone in the Health Ministry actually looked in the medical literature for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darlene M.S. Hammell, MD October 2001
... on the large body of observational data from the Nurses’ Health Study, which demonstrated that both estrogen therapy ... a healthier cohort, or possibly more careful about their health management. In August 1998 this belief in an overall ... progestin most used by the participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, which gave us the initial beneficial results. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD April 2001
... Institute and TRIUMF, and the National Institutes of Health. ABSTRACT: Multiple brain imaging techniques have ...