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Clinical Articles / BY: Chong S. Lee, MD, FRCPC May 2001
... the market, and entacapone is still under consideration by Health Canada. Recently, amantadine, given as an adjuvant to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC November 2001
... large case-controlled studies. The updated Nurses’ Health Study, which included 1935 breast cancer cases, ... Although there is good evidence that HRT can improve bone health and some contradictory evidence regarding heart health, there are often other therapies and lifestyle changes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC January/February 2001
... to available contacts and by informing the medical health officer from the local public health unit, who will arrange contact tracing. Diagnosis of ... for planning appropriate clinical management and public health measures ( Figure 3 ). Several methods for laboratory ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July / August 2001
A few years ago I made an important mental-health maintenance decision. I decided to get off the ... However, reality quickly dampens the enthusiasm of novice health ministers within a few heartbeats. I think we will see our shiny new health minister demonstrating the strained “what the hell ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM April 2001
... Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre Clinical Articles Parkinson’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R.C. Offer, MD, FRCPC, FACR October 2001
... of recent progress, but also an understanding of the health goals and concerns of each woman. Osteoporosis should ... of aging baby boomers indicate a looming major public health problem unless we can initiate effective measures to ... the therapies for osteoporosis currently approved by the Health Protection Branch are antiresorptive. This includes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Sullivan, BA, LLB, MCL July / August 2001
... or capacity, is the word used in the tetralogy of health care acts that came into force in British Columbia on ... to describe whether the adult patient can make a health care decision. Doing that poses no difficulty provided ... other tests) the “risks and benefits of the proposed health care....”[ 2 ] Capable people can exercise their ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD December 2001
... out by an energetic group of Canada’s politicians, health bureaucrats, and health economists, all seemingly possessed with an uncommon ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2001
... much for the "we’re going to include all stakeholders in health decision making" and "we see the value of the opinions of frontline health-care workers in health-care planning" rhetoric of the current government. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janet Henderson, MB, BCh September 2001
... the potential to reduce the cost of influenza to the health service, since only 8% of patients in the zanamivir ... treatment groups required an unscheduled contact with health care professionals compared with 14% of patients in ... complications, zanamivir has the potential to reduce the health care costs associated with influenza, which could ...