Search

Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2019
... on health by getting active is an uphill battle. As of 1 April 2019, new ICBC regulations have come in to effect for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2019
... of the Cannabis sativa plant for recreational purposes.[ 1 ] Before legalization, according to Statistics Canada, 27% ... ratio to pregnancy for never users versus daily users was 1.08 in men (95% CI, 0.79-1.47) and 0.92 in women (95% CI, 0.43-1.95).[ 4 ] The authors ...
News May 2019
... if the patient had underlying contracture. From a 1-day session with physiatrists from Victoria, Vancouver, and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC July/August 2019
... is one of the contributing factors to this rise.[ 1 ] Understanding the natural history of a disease allows a ... of symptom severity and duration correlates with a 1-year mortality of 10% to 25%.[ 2 ] Each additional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Baumann, MD November 2019
... insoluble amyloid fibrilprotein in any tissue or organ.[ 1 ] The most common subtypes of the disease are AL amyloidosis and AA reactive amyloidosis.[ 1 ] AL amyloidosis is a systemic disease caused by ... to a community respirologist. An X-ray image [ Figure 1 ] and CT images [ Figure 2 ] showed a cystic consolidation ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD January/February 2019
... of new regulations under the BC Public Health Act, as of 1 January 2019, laboratories testing BC patients and paid for ...
News / BY: Jeremy Hunka September 2019
... of viable brain in the intracranial cavity. Nearly 1 year later, Samuel is planning to return to school with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP December 2019
... oxide (N 2 O), commonly known as “laughing gas,”[ 1 ] has historically been used for medicinal purposes such as ... N 2 O, on average. The duration of action is short-lived (1 to 2 minutes)[ 4 ] after the canister is punctured and the ... into an inflatable or an enclosed object for inhalation.[ 1 ] N 2 O that is chemically identical to the N 2 O in ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi January/February 2019
... (“ Building interprofessional maternity care in BC ”)[ 1 ] describes how the Shared Care Maternity Network, now ...
MDs To Be / BY: Caleb A.N. Roda, MD April 2019
... its invention in 1816 by French physician Rene Laennec.[ 1 ] Binaural, electronic, and more recently, iPhone ...