Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
May 2021
... research is of high quality and is clinically important.[ 2 ] The University of British Columbia has several such ...
Obituaries /
BY: Patrick Fay, MD
September 2021
... form of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) for the past 2 years. Beauty, grace, and intelligence are words that come ... and in 1976 she set sail from Marseille, France, to spend 2 years circumnavigating the globe in a 29-foot sailboat. ... for 25 years and in her private therapeutic practice for 2 decades, training in complementary fields including ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM
December 2021
Like type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes has long been considered a progressive, incurable ... disease and neuropathy.[ 1 ] The assumption that type 2 diabetes is irreversible is supported by the strong ... impact on morbidity and mortality for those with type 2 diabetes is rather grim and in excess of many cancers. The ...
Letters, COVID-19 /
BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC
April 2021
... extended their gap between the first and second doses.[ 2 , 3 ] The United Kingdom approached vaccination with a ... what was seen in clinical trials: protection begins around 2 weeks after dose 1 and is sustained thereafter for the ... if the extended gap is found to put those waiting for dose 2 at excessive risk, then a shorter interval would need to be ...
News, COVID-19
June 2021
... has been shown to prevent viral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in some lab-based studies, and researchers hypothesize that ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Tristan Jeffery, BSc
October 2021
... the concept of Two-Eyed Seeing in a Western setting.[ 2 ] Specifically, Two-Eyed Seeing “refers to learning to ... both of these eyes together for the benefit of all.”[ 2 ] Elder Albert Marshall emphasizes that Two-Eyed Seeing ... than Western in certain situations and vice versa.[ 2 ] It brings together two ways of knowing to allow a diverse ...
News
January/February 2021
... and Referral in Primary Care Prostate Cancer Part 2: Follow-up in Primary Care CT Prioritization MRI ...
Obituaries /
BY: John W. Perry, MD, and family
December 2021
... and sustained her for the rest of her life. Over the last 2 years Kathleen suffered with the many side effects of ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
March 2021
... significantly curtailed my consumption of social media for 2 weeks. Not only did I gain back time for self-care, I was ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc
June 2021
... this injury has been increasing over the last 20 years,[ 2 ] likely due to increased sporting involvement among ... and consult to reconstruction (W2) was 161 days [ Table 2 ]. Fifty patients (60.2%) were treated more than 180 days after injury. There was ...