Clinical Articles /
BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC
March 2017
... bone mineral density (BMD) and opted to repeat the scan at 5-year intervals. Because Ms Stewart’s BMD from this first ... Stewart for osteoporosis 15 years ago. Today Ms Stewart is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 128 pounds. She has a history ... at 1 year, and an increased mortality rate persists for 5 years.[ 2,3 ] For a woman over 50 the lifetime risk of a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: E. Pharo, BSc
November 2017
... for residual cellulitis. The specimen measured 1 cm by 1.5 cm and was sent to British Columbia Centre for Disease ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Melissa McLaws, DVM, PhD
April 2017
... of altered behavior. It is estimated that less than 0.5% of bats are actually infected.[ 2 ] Other species in BC ... tested positive for rabies between 1969 and 2016 include 5 cats, 4 skunks, 1 beaver, and 1 horse. All had bat-variant ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Michael A. Gallea, B Arts Sc (Hons)
July/August 2017
... literature but also in certain works of visual art.[ 5 ] For example, Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch depicts ... field that was often required in the operating room.[ 5 ] This served to distance Watts from the pair’s research, ...
President's Comment /
BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS
January/February 2017
As an elected Board and Executive member for the last 5 years, I have been privileged to represent and advocate for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD
June 2017
... from 1 to 83. The mean number of consultations was 4.6 (5.3) and the median number was 3.0. Detailed analysis of data ... younger than 1 year to 100 years, with a mean age of 31.5 (14.5) years and a median age of 31.0. Approximately ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM
October 2017
... where physicians are more likely to recognize TBRF.[ 4,5 ] Infection with B. hermsii leads to a relapsing fever ... to detect antibodies to B. hermsii HS1 (serotype 33).[ 5 ] Samples were considered positive if dilutions of 1:256 or ... and then presented to a physician in a nonendemic region.[ 5 ] The percentage of TBRF cases in BC also seems high ...
Premise /
BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP
March 2017
... for Health System Transformation and Sustainability,[ 5 ] and the privileging project represents a dramatic ...
News
June 2017
... with multiple sclerosis can show signs of something wrong 5 years before the onset of disease, much earlier than ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Winsby, MD
December 2017
... have contributed to reducing emergency transfers by 5%, acute care admissions by 9%, and length of ER stays by ... can connect with a doctor after hours in as little as 3 to 5 minutes in some cases. South Okanagan Similkameen Division ...