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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2010
... exposure to inorganic lead,” BCMJ 2009:51[9]:388 ). The author point­ed out “take-home” exposure ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Manal Hasan, MBBS, MD, October 2010
... has been classified as primary or secondary ( Table 1 ).[ 9 ] Primary OA denotes generalized or erosive OA with no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2010
... care provider within 1 to 2 weeks of birth, at 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months, then once per year for children ... the problem with individual children and families.[ 9 ] How should I approach the discussion of an abnormal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD December 2010
... of knowledge retention suggested good knowledge transfer.[ 9 ] Step 4: Implementation with information campaign Our next ... was a decrease in 2-year pelvic recurrence from 18.2% to 9.2% for Stage 3 rectal cancers and from 9.6% to 6.9% overall.[ 14 ] Use of adjuvant radiation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2010
... an overall 33% reduction in the incidence of a first MI.[ 9 ] Based on this evidence, the Cardio-Renal Drugs Advisory ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM March 2010
... Two cohorts of girls were targeted—grades 6 and 9—in order to see benefits earlier, given the latency ... that a female-only vaccination program of grade 6 and 9 girls was cost effective compared to no vaccination, at a ... female-only vaccination is cost effective.[ 2 ] The grade 9 HPV vaccine program for girls in BC was designed to run for ...
News&Notes October 2010
The following physicians have died over the past 9 months; please consider submitting a piece for our “In ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer M. Wilson, MD, FRCPC, May 2010
... and idiopathic pul­monary arterial hypertension.[ 8,9 ] How­ever, data for patients with underlying COPD or ... regarding survival benefit with lung transplantation.[ 8,9 ]  The most recent estimates from the registry of the ... patients who have emphysema or Eisenmenger syndrome.[ 8,9 ]  Early referral is highly desirable because it permits ...
News January/February 2010
... That report has estimated the impact of the HST to be $13.9 million, or 0.65% of MSP fee-for-service payments, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Hawkeswood, MD, October 2010
... their OA; however, 73% had tried exercising in the past.[ 9 ] A dose-response relationship between compliance and ...