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BY: Jim Petzold, MD
September 2019
... I looked up to see a young woman approaching with her 5-year-old son in tow. She wanted her son to meet the doc who ...
News /
BY: Jessie Wang
January/February 2019
... Doctors of BC offers plans with a payout of up to $5 000 000 in the event of death before age 75, as well as ...
Letters /
BY: Cobus McCallaghan, MBChB
June 2019
... motor disorders; and others as described in the DSM-5 ). They, however, were either not diagnosed as children, or ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC
November 2019
... are needed. In the meantime, vitamin C (500 mg daily for 5 to 6 weeks) is extremely low risk and there is moderate ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Steven Larigakis, MD
March 2019
... start assessing frailty with the PRISMA 7 questionnaire[ 5 ] and the Timed Up and Go test.[ 6 ] Additionally, the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin Ng,
July/August 2019
... in fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths. In the course of 5 years the number of drug-related fatalities increased more ... shown incidence rates of 0.8%,[ 3 ] 2.4%,[ 4 ] and 2.1%.[ 5 ] This last rate found by Sporer and Dorn[ 5 ] is notable for being from the most recent and largest ...
Premise /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
May 2019
... for a PhD in physics education research. He has over 5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, Veritasium, ... the mean you account for 95% of the events, leaving only 2.5% in each of the tails of this type of statistical ...
News
November 2019
... that individuals with rheumatoid arthritis have a 1.5-fold increased risk for incident depression and a 1.2-fold ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Mark A. Lau, PhD, R.Psych
January/February 2019
... Health Survey[ 1 ] revealed a 1-year prevalence of 5.4% for mood disorders and a lifetime prevalence rate of ... contribute to and result from physical illness and pain.[ 5 ] Despite the collective efforts of national, provincial, ... levels of severity classified as minimal (0 to 4), mild (5 to 9), moderate (10 to 14), moderately severe (15 to 19), ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Alana Godin
June 2019
... to be adaptable, flexible, and streamlined. Sessions are 2.5 hours long and can be tailored to reflect physicians’ ...