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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... Canada should provide a higher standard of regulation.[ 4 ] Patients with severe cardiotoxicity from aconites and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jay Slater, MD January/February 2017
... for frail seniors but may be impractical or ineffective.[ 4 ] Prescribing non-opioid analgesics to frail older adults ... pain, though the latter may be limited by side effects.[ 4 ] Cannabis may also play a role, though there is scant ... long been effective, relatively safe, and well-tolerated.[ 4 ] Yet prescribing opioids is complex and challenging. ...
News May 2017
... under Plan G[ 3 ] •    Pharmacare Newsletter[ 4 ] As well, doctors can access available supports created by ...
News July/August 2017
... difficult to stay up-to-date with medical appointments.  4. A mother who has no concerns and has ensured her child ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... for the health care system include cost containment.[ 3,4 ] CGA has been successfully applied in the acute care setting[ 4,5 ] as well as in the ambulatory care setting,[ 6-8 ] where ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2017
... is lovely and wants to grow so badly, why not let it? 4.    I don’t cage or restrain plants. I fully plant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... and nocturia, and fecal incontinence and constipation.[ 4 ] This nursing specialty was developed in Great Britain in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... varied from 1 to 83. The mean number of consultations was 4.6 (5.3) and the median number was 3.0. Detailed analysis of ... Valley RD (977 users, 7%), the Capital RD (760 users, 5.4%), and the Thompson-Nicola RD (490 users, 3.5%) ( Figure 2 ... users were Vancouver (36.3%), Surrey (16.2%), Burnaby (9.4%), Langley (8.6%), and Coquitlam (6.5%). In the Peace River ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD September 2017
... His final event was a stroke from which he passed away on 4 January 2017. The world would be better off if we had more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul Blackburn, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... Columbia older than 65 is predicted to rise from 16.4% in 2013 to between 23.9% and 27.0% by 2038.[ 3 ] An ... centres, 27.0% complained of depressive symptoms, with 4.0% complaining of more severe symptoms and 0.8% meeting criteria for a major depressive episode.[ 4 ] A more recent community-based study yielded a prevalence ...