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Clinical Articles / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP October 2006
... in vineyards follows. More detailed reviews, which include medical management of pesticide exposure, are available ... Celina Dunn for the support provided in researching this article; Wendy Hunt, librarian, for assistance in collecting ... providing the claims data. The opinions contained in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD January/February 2006
I suspect that the article by Dr David Wood, et al,  “Prevention, diagnosis, ... or has abnormal screening tests as is suggested in the article? How many persons newly diagnosed with type 2 ... the formula “one size fits all” may cause both medical and economic problems. —Jiri Frohlich MD, Andrew ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... to mental disorders are discussed in a Washington Post article. Dr Spero Manson, a psychiatrist who heads the ... An individual in crisis may have to wait a week for the medical evacuation helicopter to arrive. Rather than going to ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2006
... criticizes the undue influence of vested interests on medical information. But the solution to this problem isn’t ... so that we reduce bias in our estimates of the value of medical therapies. The authors call for open-mindedness with ...   Dr Bell and colleagues’ letter was in response to an article by Dr James E. Miles published earlier in the year. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cristina M. Aydin, BSc, October 2006
... Brandle and colleagues revealed that median direct medical expenditures for patients with type 2 diabetes ranged ... 500. [24]  Patients with diabetes have been shown to have medical costs 2.4 times greater than if they had not ... These findings are similar to those in Grossman’s review article of pioglitazone, whereby absolute reductions in A1c ...
News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
Doctors in the news Taunton named chief medical officer for 2010 University of BC sports medicine ... Braid, CEBS BCMA Benefits Department Do you have an article idea? One of the primary goals of the BC Medical ... review articles by BC authors. If you have an idea for an article you would like to write, please consult our ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2006
... would only end up parroting the already impressive list of medical journalists’ published statements of what seems to ... is unimportant) require a comment. I concur that medical/scientific editors need a guarantee that their ... issue and writing editorial comment about a science-based article (either positive or negative), and, in my opinion, ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... heart cannot be operated on, these doctors pioneer the medical revolution of cardiac surgery that continues today. ... and poor, Thomas is a carpenter by trade and has no formal medical training. His plans of becoming a doctor are ruined ... For more information about the fees discussed in this article, please log in to the members’ home page on the ...
Clinical Articles December 2006
... using  DSM-IV-TR  as “a mood disorder due to a general medical condition (brain injury).” Screening for depressive ...  category “personality change due to a general and medical condition.”  DSM-IV-TR  lists a variety of ... guidelines for all of the conditions discussed in this article. A summary of the medications they recommend appears ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Kierans, BA, MA January/February 2006
... intrauterine growth charts in the now classic 1963 article that recommended the use of such charts in evaluating ... a population with comparable risk demographics, access to medical care, and other factors known to affect intrauterine ... and BCRCP [4,12,17]  and updates are planned for a future article in the  BC Medical Journal . It is hoped that the ...