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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was first identified in December 2019 and resulted in ... of pneumonia in Wuhan, China.[ 1 ] Since then, SARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly around the globe. On 11 March 2020, the ... World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.[ 2 ] As of 6 September 2020, more than 27 million people ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI January/February 2020
... there are others pertinent to their conclusions. Objective 2 was to assess the stability of BI-RADS density categories ... Similarly, hormone therapy can increase density.[ 2 , 3 ] They apparently did not make efforts to avoid ... similar at 1 year for women at elevated risk to that at 2 years for women at non-elevated risk.” Even with these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... Canadian data on prescription opioid use are dated,[ 1 , 2 ] but recent US data suggest that more than one-third of US ... risk factors were analyzed.[ 19-22 ] They included 2 888 346 patients and 4470 cases that met the authors’ ... of OUD in the context of pain care is estimated to be 2.8% (range 0.10% to 34.0%).[ 4 ] Based on this incidence ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... treatments and over 70% of people with advanced cancer.[ 2 ] Opioids remain the treatment of choice for moderate to ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD March 2020
... my friend, and on day 1 everything was great, but on day 2 I awoke to a chill in the air. It was a crisp January ... patients with respiratory symptoms related to perfume,”[ 2 ] concluded that perfume induces a dose-dependent non-IGE ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee June 2020
... media coverage of potential pharmacological agents.[ 1 , 2 ] In BC, we have had the benefit of a diverse group of ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Kristina Jenei, BSN September 2020
... in the Hot Zone,” on which the book was based.[ 2 ] There are many differences between SARS-CoV-2 and the Ebola virus; however, the lessons from the book are ... were linked to traditional burial practices.[ 4 ] SARS-CoV-2, too, is changing how the world buries and mourns its loved ...
MDs To Be / BY: Anita Weng, BSc December 2020
... overdose deaths occur in small- to midsized communities.[ 2 , 3 ] The BC Coroners Service reports that the illegal drug ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... of stereotypes and racist attitudes all play a part.[ 1 , 2 ] One outcome of colonization is a lack of emphasis on ... improved services and support for Indigenous patients.[ 2-5 ] Specifically, UNDRIP article 24.1 states: Indigenous ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... are the infant series, including the doses beginning at 2 months of age, and the 12-month doses. Physicians who do ...