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Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc March 2020
... and cardiac outflow tract anomalies.[ 1 , 2 ] DiGeorge syndrome was later grouped with other ... G/BBB syndrome, and Cayler cardiofacial syndrome).[ 1 , 2 ] With the advent of cytogenetic testing in the 1980s and ... microdeletion was identified in all these syndromes: 22q11.2 deletion. The condition now known as 22q11.2 deletion ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derin Karacabeyli, MD July/August 2020
... worldwide, posing a major public health challenge.[ 1 , 2 ] Childhood obesity is complex, with several factors ... and environmental change) the evidence-based Live-5-2-1-0 message: 5 vegetables and fruits every day. 2 hours at most of recreational screen time a day. 1 hour at ...
Letters / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2020
... for combined estrogen and progestin ranges from 1.3 to 2.0 for 5+ and 10+ years of usage respectively.[ 2 , 3 ] The available program data for hormone use were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Justin Dhinsa, BSc May 2020
... and the second most common being Ewing sarcoma.[ 1 , 2 ] Osteosarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasia ... visiting multiple health care professionals [ Figure 2 ]. The six patients whose records were reviewed had an ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Kristopher T. Kang, MD September 2020
... and public health emergencies such as pandemics.[ 1 , 2 ] Despite this, their needs are often overlooked.[ 3 ] ... Emerging data from the ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, the causal agent of the acute respiratory distress ...
Letters / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc November 2020
... cultural values and experiences.[ 1 ] Recent research[ 2 ] highlights the enormous benefits of patient-physician ... the newborn mortality rate can be reduced by half.[ 2 ] While creating greater support for Black students to ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ernest Salcedo March 2020
... exposures and occupational diseases. Over the last 2 years, our outreach program has reached over 400 MOAs and ... a medical advisor in your nearest WorkSafeBC office. 2.  Questions about your patient’s claim or other ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc June 2020
... and early adulthood can result in pulmonary toxicity.[ 2 ] With the growing evidence of potential risk factors ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sofía Zhang-Jiang, BHSc December 2020
... good over the rights of the individual (utilitarian).[ 2 ] The first theory concerns itself with rights, duties, and ... the second values social good and social accountability.[ 2 ] While the rightness of a decision is not difficult to ... this clinical case through Pellegrino and Thomasma’s[ 2 ] beneficence model, a medical adaptation of the third ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David A. Obert, MD, MPP April 2020
... as well as Canadian Coast Guard vessels. During 2 weeks in May 2019, I was very fortunate to get an inside ... pledge, and it aptly sums up this motivation. During my 2 weeks with the JRCC (and on-field excursions to 442 ...