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Premise / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD May 2020
... reserved for family or good friends. Social distance (2 to 3 metres), when meeting strangers. Public distance (more ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Leilynaz Malekafzali, BSc September 2020
... caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) started in the city of Wuhan, China, in December 2019.[ 1 ... cases and 343 514 deaths globally by 26 May 2020.[ 2 ] Based on previous experience with the SARS 2003 epidemic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... dramatically increased from 144 in 2009 to 1487 in 2018.[ 2 ] Most of this increase occurred in Eastern Canada: 88% of ... cases in 2018 were from Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.[ 2 ] In BC, the trend is reversed: the number of reported ... from a peak of 40 (0.8 per 100 000) in 2016 to 9 (0.2 per 100 000) in 2018.[ 3 ] Nonetheless, risk modeling ...
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 ...