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Clinical Articles / BY: Maya Ignaszewski, MD January/February 2017
... accurate method for estimating exercise intensity.[ 5 ] Despite occasionally overestimating or underestimating ... of a reasonable progression would be an increase of 5 to 10 minutes per session every 1 to 2 weeks.[ 6 ]  The ... 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity at least 5 days a week for a total of 150 minutes, or 25 minutes of ...
News April 2017
The Terry Fox Research Institute invested $5 million for New Brunswick researchers and their colleagues ... Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. He hopes the 5-year study will result in new approaches to identifying, ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... of the association with the referendum resulting in a 92.5% approval rate.  Dr Ramneek Dosanjh, president-elect for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... in Canada in 1995 by the Ontario Ministry of Health.[ 5 ] The NCA assesses patients using a structured approach. A ... For instance, postmenopausal women with diabetes have a 2.5 times greater risk of having urinary incontinence than ...
Letters / BY: David D.W. Twa, BSc October 2017
... of marijuana legalization has come into question.[ 5 ] I have faith that we will be prepared if the Canadian ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... guidelines recommend a target HbA1c level of 7.1% to 8.5% for patients with limited life expectancy, a higher level ... even those not known to cause withdrawal symptoms. Step 5: Monitoring, support, and documentation Patient monitoring ... be withdrawn, (4) planning and initiating withdrawal, and (5) monitoring and documenting the process. Evidence is ...
Obituaries / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2017
... was born in New Westminster on 2 January 1938 as a 3.5-lb premature baby and endured the struggles of being a ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care .[ 5 ] As in his presentations[ 6 ] on the topic, he uses ... ourselves on the patient’s side of the stethoscope.”[ 5 ] Our patients Of course, our colleagues are not our only ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... and was still taking high doses of hydromorphone, a drug 5 times more potent than plain morphine (e.g., 6 mg of ... psychiatric comorbidities. Finally, Colman and colleagues[ 5 ] have addressed depression and reviewed factors that ...
MDs To Be / BY: Marc Jutras, BBA, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 March 2017
... in subsequent editions, including the current  DSM-5 , published in 2013.[ 3 ] With theoretical frameworks and a ... cognitions and emotions underlying mental disorders.[ 5,6 ] When combined with principles of behaviorism, this ...