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Clinical Articles / BY: Ekua Yorke, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... treatment with either oral or injectable medications.[ 4 ] Despite such recommendations and the excellent outcomes ... lead to removal of the band. The removal rate can be up to 4% per year, and at 15 years almost half of all gastric bands ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... opioid and illicit drug deaths totaling 993 in 2016[ 4 ] and representing roughly one-third of the 2861 ... 2017, with 1452 deaths in BC from illicit drug poisoning.[ 4 ] Though “overdose” is commonly used interchangeably ... unintentional poisoning hospitalizations increased from 31.4 to 35.9 per 100 000 ( P = .04) from 2008 to 2013, ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2018
Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Sugar, MD October 2018
... or pulmonary embolism. In addition, 53 patients (21.4%) presented with other surgery-related complaints ... followed by wound concerns (13.0%) and fever (13.0%).[ 4 ]  A 2001 study by Imasogie and Chung found a 1.0% rate of ... visits is well supported in the literature.[ 3 , 4 , 9 , 10 ] A reduction in unnecessary emergency department ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amie Padilla-Thornton, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... of risk The Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System,[ 4 ] published by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and ... 24 months to ensure stability. Lesions assessed as BI-RADS 4 have an estimated malignancy risk of between 2% and 95% and ... large range of risk, many radiologists subdivide BI-RADS 4 into three categories based on positive predictive values: ...
News / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD January/February 2018
... MD. Brindle & Glass Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-927366-68-4. 224 pages. Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey Roberts, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... granulosa cells, and disappearance of eggs.[ 3 , 4 ] The toxicity of chemotherapeutic treatments varies ... despite the resumption of regular menstrual cycles.[ 4 , 11-15 ] A survey of 2532 cancer survivors between the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2018
... wet springs that promote mosquito breeding and feeding.[ 4 ] Though incidence of West Nile virus has been low in BC, ...
Obituaries / BY: Alan Burris, MD March 2018
... Stewart loved the practice of medicine, and over the next 4 decades he delighted in providing medical care to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Chang, MD, CCFP April 2018
... Pureed diet for 2 weeks. Soft and moist solids for 4 weeks. Transition to regular food in very small amounts at ... hernia occurs after RYGB with a reported incidence rate of 4.5%,[ 3 ] the risk can be reduced if the mesenteric defects are closed with running sutures.[ 4 ] Treatment for internal hernia is laparoscopic surgery ...