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Obituaries / BY: Rob Arnold, MD, April 2016
... registrar and became registrar in 1984, a post he held for 5 years until his retirement in 1989.  Early in his medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan T. Bates, MD, PhD June 2016
... and reaching the best possible position in life.[ 5 ] If this is our primary driving force, it is ...
News March 2016
... For elective procedures, warfarin should be stopped for 5 to 6 days prior to the procedure to allow gradual ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... for determining the need for total knee arthroplasty.[ 5 ] In similar fashion a further outcome study on the Oxford ...
Obituaries / BY: Nadia Caira November 2016
Dr Caira passed away with his family by his side on 5 September 2016 at Shuswap Lake General Hospital in Salmon ...
News September 2016
... any blood. The tiny needle-like projection, less than 0.5 mm long, resembles a hollow cone and doesn’t pierce the ...
Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... the bleak alternative of sterility for cancer patients.[ 3,5 ] More recently, following substantial advancements in ... is born with a finite number of eggs that diminish over 5 or 6 decades until menopause is attained. In a unique study ... layer destined to form the placenta) is biopsied on day 5 or 6 after fertilization and the chromosomal complement of ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in Oliver, BC, for nearly 20 years, but for the previous 5 I practised in other rural parts of the country. Like many ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrea K.Y. Lee, MD May 2016
... has been shown to decrease systolic blood pressure by 2 to 5 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 1 to 4 mm Hg. ... such as running is associated with lower mortality,[ 5,6 ] findings from recent studies suggest that an upper ... program with an average follow-up of 8.05 years.[ 5 ] The low-volume activity group exercised for the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc December 2016
... [3]  Studies have shown chlamydia cure rates of 98% with 5 days of doxycycline therapy or 8 to 10 of the prescribed 14 ... overall (33/132) were found to be macrolide-resistant. [5]  This is important because the treatment of chlamydia, ...