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Letters / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD January/February 2020
... that they do represent one aspect of the opioid crisis.[ 1 ] The authors outlined some descriptive epidemiology of the ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC April 2020
... principle, which is sometimes called group selection[ 1 ] and sometimes called cooperation.[ 2 ] Even Darwin had ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM July/August 2020
... affected seniors living in long-term care. Only 1% of Canadians reside in long-term care, but these deaths represent 80% of all COVID deaths in Canada.[ 1 ] This statistic is a result of issues that have been ... national standards of care (including an increase to 4.1 hours of care per day), and place limits on private, ...
Letters / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc November 2020
Dr Dixon’s essay in the July 2020 issue of the BCMJ [ 1 ] is a powerful reminder of our need to consistently ... understand their unique cultural values and experiences.[ 1 ] Recent research[ 2 ] highlights the enormous benefits of ... systems-level changes tackling racism are needed as well.[ 1 ] —Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc Vancouver —Vahid Mehrnoush, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John Fan March 2019
... pmol/L), and free triiodothyronine (FT3) of 46.1 pmol/L (3.5–6.5 pmol/L). Given that these laboratory ... was found (TSH 0.01 mU/L, FT4 > 103.0 pmol/L, FT3 > 46.1 pmol/L), a referral was made to endocrinology. Upon being ... sclerosis. The patient was advised to stop the biotin for 1 week before repeat testing. Follow-up blood work revealed ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC May 2019
... “Why most published research findings are false.”[ 1 ] In the article he likened medical research to a large RCT ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Ng, July/August 2019
... catecholamine surge following naloxone administration.[ 1 ] Previous studies of pulmonary edema associated with ... at two tertiary care hospitals in Vancouver from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2016. Health records were ... evidence of NCPE was found in the charts of 11 patients (1.1%). No repeat cases of NCPE were found. The combined mean ...
News December 2019
... challenge. In Canada, one in three people (approximately 9.1 million) will be affected by mental illness during their ...
Letters / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC January/February 2019
... older cheaper drugs (as concerns for their harms grow).[ 1 , 2 ] —Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC Vancouver This letter was ...
News April 2019
... Optics . It is available online at https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.23.12.125004 . News Tool to help with early detection ...