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Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... Prostate Brachytherapy Program has been responsible for 17 peer-reviewed papers and 34 ab­stracts, numerous oral ... the temporary urinary retention rate decreased from 17% in the first 2 years of the program to 6% in subsequent ... depend on the skills and experience of the surgeon.[ 16,17 ]  The complications of greatest concern to patients are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... age, the risk of CHD can be adequately assessed.[ 17 ]  A more complicated mod­el, the ETHRISK scoring ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mazhar Haque, MBBS, FRACP, May 2010
... the use of higher doses and multiple courses of vaccine.[ 17 ] Alcoholic liver disease Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is ... rate of primary disease is also higher—at least 17%.[ 27 ] Primary biliary cirrhosis PBC is one of the most ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel H. Williams, MSc, FRCS (Tr & Orth), November 2010
... surgery.  Arterial injury complicates between 0.03% and 0.17% of cases[ 15 ] and peroneal nerve injury has been ... age-matched population after the 70th postoperative day.[ 17 ]  Mortality at 1 year following knee arthroplasty is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2010
... trial done in the United States. The study was done at 17 VA medical centres and involved 523 patients.  It was the ...
News September 2010
... Program.  The research was published in  Cancer Cell 17(6)525-526. News Prostate cancer drug developed in BC ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB May 2010
... Canada.  His plan is, in many ways, flawed. It will leave 17 million uninsured. It does not address the enormous cost ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... of Agriculture defin­ition for a standard drink, which is 17.74 mL or 14 g of alcohol. This represents 44 mL (1.5 fl. ... of alcohol was similar between the sexes (18% in women and 17% in men) the slopes of the two curves differed, as seen ... of alcohol consumed daily (3.36 mm Hg per drink per day).17 That being said, a study of 14 125 known hypertensive men ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... of statin therapy was reported in 2002. The HPS study[ 17 ] examined over 20 000 high-risk patients with established ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, December 2009
... that dronedarone may be less effective than amiodarone.[ 17 ] While these early studies show dronedarone to be safe, ... were not observed in the other trials of dronedarone.[ 17 , 19 ] While ATHENA included patients with class II or III ...