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Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS June 2016
... careers existed: medicine, law, and the clergy. The people whom each of these professions served looked for ... legitimate leadership, and a strong sense of hope. The people expected outstanding service, the safety of trusted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
News September 2016
... Nutrition Examination Survey, a survey that samples 5000 people each year across the United States. The survey ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2016
... If I wore glasses and ran a little gel through my hair people would still recognize me; how does Superman handle his ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2016
... As my grandson, Nick, said, “He was one of those epic people one seldom meets for he was always enjoyable and could ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... and influenza experts continue to recommend that people get vaccinated against influenza if they are at higher ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP September 2016
... of addictions or those with psychiatric illness or young people, whoever that applies to, can’t suffer severe pain? ... antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). (It is said more people die from NSAIDS in Canada than all of the traffic ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make ... a response to patient experiences of poor quality dying. People were dying in hospital surrounded by machines that ... palliative care is involved in dying, its aim is to help people live as well as is possible until their natural death. ...
News October 2016
... by a layperson to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. The closing date for ...