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Obituaries / BY: Carol Stewart Walker November 2017
... to Kingston, Ontario, and Ron’s father went to war for 7 long years. At age 11, when the family was living in ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... fatalities. In view of the random annual variation of ±4.7% in the 4 years preceding marijuana legalization, the ... are the subject of a recent comprehensive review.[ 7 ] —R.A. Rockerbie, PhD Medico-Legal Pharmacologist, ...
Letters / BY: Chris Rumball, MD June 2017
... in the driver’s system. It dropped from 12.1% in 2014 to 7.1%. However, other categories did not reflect a similar ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... on a long tradition of innovation. There are more than 7 billion people on the planet, over 3 million doctors, and ... were practising in the province as of February 2015.[ 7 ] That is 1 doctor for every 400 of our 4.6 million ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul Blackburn, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... nursing home residents met criteria for major depression.[ 7 ] LLD leads to significant distress and is associated with ... score for diagnosing depression and the short form a 7-point cutoff score.[ 14,15 ] The GDS is available free ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS October 2017
... August (likewise added to the EHR). The letter indicates a 7-day delay between dictation and transcription. I have no ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... health care and can lead to many favorable outcomes.[ 3-7 ] The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and the BC ... Telehealth Report states there was aggregate growth of 45.7% in the volume of clinical sessions between 2012 and 2014.[ ... 14 011 users whose place of residence was documented (81.7%), the largest number were from the Greater Vancouver RD ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC October 2017
... but is also shown to accelerate healing of venous ulcers[ 7 ] by inhibiting neutrophil activation and reducing the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... in 10 years is 21% and her risk of a hip fracture is 8.7%. After you and Ms Stewart discuss the risks and benefits ... using BMD alone to calculate a patient’s fracture risk.[ 7 ] Instead, the guidelines recommend two well-validated ... to prevent fracture, but clinical judgment is key.[ 7 ] The FRAX tool can be used to calculate a 10-year fracture ...
News July/August 2017
... and it found that 2% of Canadian students in grades 7 to 12 (equivalent to more than 43 000 students) use ... a biennial survey administered to students in grades 7 to 12 across Canada by a consortium of researchers, the ... marijuana consumption. More than 90% of students in grades 7 to 12 who were current smokers also reported trying ...