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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tommy Gerschman, MD, FRCPC, MSc September 2018
... whereas in BC that percentage was significantly higher, 64.9%.[ 2 ] These data are encouraging for BC, but because they ...
Editorials / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC November 2018
... other provinces (notably Nova Scotia,[ 8 ] New Brunswick,[ 9 ] and Ontario[ 10 ]) have long recognized the need for a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2018
... the use of vaccines including rotavirus are online.[ 8 , 9 ] —Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM Medical Director, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... the lifetime risk for developing breast cancer was 1 in 9 and the lifetime mortality risk was 1 in 30. Since 1986 ... screening programs during the period 1990 to 2009,[ 9 ] and observed a 40% mortality reduction, with little ... screening mammogram (i.e., the abnormal call rate) was 9.1%. The number of women with a screen-detected cancer per ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD March 2018
... were calls to Jean that he would be late for dinner—9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Bedtime vignettes ended with Yan falling ...
News January/February 2018
... be used to terminate pregnancies at an early stage—up to 9 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period. Since 11 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2018
... purulent lesion is present or carrier state persists.[ 8 , 9 ] With respect to HA-MRSA, both MRSA-carrier and/or ... and residence in a long-term care home.[ 3 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ] Although anyone can acquire CA-MRSA, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... emergency and people dying while using substances alone.[ 9 ] What can physicians do? Physicians can respect people’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Taylor, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... as an increase in term delivery rate from 1.4% to 74.4%.[ 9 ] Uterine fibroids and endometrial adhesions may also be ... has proven superior to treatment with aspirin alone (42.9% live birth rate). The combination of heparin and low-dose ... loss. One study identified chronic endometritis in 9% of women with recurrent miscarriage, and found a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... poisoning hospitalizations increased from 31.4 to 35.9 per 100 000 ( P = .04) from 2008 to 2013, unintentional poisoning deaths increased from 7.2 to 9.2 per 100 000 ( P = .004), and all-intents poisoning ... with age, with the lowest rate for children age 5 to 9 years (3.8 per 100 000) and the highest rate for adults ...