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Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... disease and have limited therapeutic options. With 1.4 million people impacted by prediabetes or diabetes in ... eventual therapeutic application of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors,[ 3 ] today a widely used class of type 2 ...
Letters / BY: Sandra Seo Young Kim, BSc January/February 2018
... teamwork into a future practitioner’s practice,[ 4 ] the CHIUS clinic addresses a gap that currently exists in ...
Editorials / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... typically produce limited results in the long term.[ 4 ] Telling patients that this disease is “their fault” ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2018
... through false or exaggerated claims. Part 7, Section 7-4(3) of the bylaws states: “A registrant must not identify ... body approved by the board.” Part 7, Section 7-4(4) of the bylaws states: “No one other than a registrant ...
Letters / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2018
...  editors.  Dr Kendler cites a single trial[ 4 ] and relative risk reductions, which are well known to be ...
News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... in the progression from LTBI to active TB disease.[ 4 ] It is estimated that about 5% to 10% of those infected ... TB will develop active TB at some point in their lives.[ 4 ] The likelihood of this occurrence increases considerably ... has been 600 mg of daily self-administered rifampin for 4 months. Rifampin treatment of LTBI would typically be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... and 50% of primary care patients have mental illness[ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ] and many patients have their first contact with ... 8.7) years. Interviews completed by 2 psychiatrists and 4 family doctors who participated in pit appointments were ... times for pit appointments between 2014 (mean 11.7, SE 2.4) and 2016 (mean 9.7, SE 1.9) ( Figure 3 ). Referral reasons ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MBBS, DTM&H, DRCOG, DFFP, PMETB, CELTA, LMCC, CCFP, MPH May 2018
... Aboriginal Peoples and the Auditor General of Canada.”[ 4 ] Boyd also comments that there are no national standards ... are guidelines for provinces to apply as they see fit.[ 4 ] Because of the Canada Labour Code, Health Canada has ... Indigenous communities with poor water quality.[ 4 ] Poor infrastructure and poverty are seminal causes of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matt Kurrek, MD, FRCPC December 2018
... methadone, morphine, oxycodone, and sufentanil.[ 4 ] In 2009 the CMPA reported on 49 medicolegal cases ... or morphine plus propofol and achieving a median score of 4 on the Ramsay sedation scale. In the unblinded capnography ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Taylor, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2018
... by reducing influenza symptoms by less than 1 day.[ 4 ] Vaccination is recommended for influenza prevention and ... wanting to be immunized in the ED for influenza ( Table 4 ) and for pneumococcal disease ( Table 5 ) were varied, ...