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Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2021
... entering class of UBC Medicine in 2016 was 53.8% women.[ 2 ] Despite this, implicit gender-based biases still existed ... 36% less than male GPs, even though they worked only 3.2 fewer hours per week compared to male GPs.[ 5 ] Others have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul R. D’Alessandro, MD, MSc, FRCPC July/August 2021
... stage 3 for axillary and pubic hair and Tanner stage 2 for breast development. No lymphadenopathy, abdominal mass, ... time of day = 61 to 349 nmol/L) and total testosterone (2.8 nmol/L; normal for age = < 1 nmol/L) with normal ... physiologic low-dose oral hydrocortisone replacement. Case 2 A 3-month-old infant presented to her general practitioner ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC November 2021
... half of all Canadians reporting worsening mental health,[ 2 ] and those experiencing the most societal inequities ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD March 2021
... prescribed medications for children globally,[ 1 , 2 ] with common indications for the ambulatory, inpatient, ... maculopapular or urticarial eruptions [ Figure 1 ].[ 2 ] A Swiss study involving 88 children with nonimmediate ... that only 7% were allergic to the antibiotics.[ 2 ] A drug-viral interaction can result in a cutaneous ...
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 ...