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Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
Worldwide prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is on the rise, yet we remain without a cure for ... Physiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC).[ 2 ] Subsequent work by this group, including Dr Chris McIntosh, using preclinical models of type 2 diabetes, played a key role in the eventual therapeutic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Taylor, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2018
... were the eighth leading cause of death in Canada.[ 2 ] Vaccination programs in the ED have been described ... immunization in the ED. For this estimated proportion of 0.2 and a desired precision of +/- .05 we calculated a required ... disease. Risk factors reported for influenza ( Table 2 ) and for pneumococcal disease ( Table 3 ) show that heart ...
News May 2018
... of sex or age. However, if that rate of production is 2 to 3 times higher, those individuals are destined to ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi September 2018
... of their work on the GPSC Residential Care Initiative.[ 2 ] The Dementia Roadmaps are the brainchild of Dr Trevor ...
News January/February 2018
... FIT using the Standard Outpatient Lab Requisition every 2 years. •    Patients with existing FIT requisitions ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD June 2018
... particularly those with chronic noncancer pain.[ 1 , 2 ] Opioid overprescription, improper risk assessment, and ... of opioids, and physicians who attend will receive 2.5 Mainpro+ credits.  Sessions have already been held in ... Langley/Surrey  25 September: Penticton/South Okanagan   2 October: Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Mission   19 October: ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2018
... in the Canadian Family Physician , January 2013, had a 29.2% survey return (unacceptable by Dr Richardson’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine Wilson, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... image-guided biopsies was implemented with some success.[ 2 ] A business case was made for converting from analog to ... and additional communication do not cause delays ( Figure 2 ). This means a full-service diagnostic facility (hub) ... diagnosed with breast cancer after a mean wait time of 84.2 days to see the surgeon. Of these patients, 49% presenting ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MBBS, DTM&H, DRCOG, DFFP, PMETB, CELTA, LMCC, CCFP, MPH May 2018
... safety and assuring availability of trained personnel.[ 2 ] It is estimated that people living on reserve are 90 ... and the evaluation of the effects of water insecurity.[ 2 ] Indigenous peoples remain marginalized and suffer ...
Letters / BY: Ken Markel, MD September 2018
... convince us that this will not change. No company spends $2 billion without a plan for a significant return on their ... prior to embarking on the strategy.) What happened to the $2 billion? What were the commissions paid? Who received them? ...