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Clinical Articles / BY: Oleksandr Butskiy, MD October 2017
... hospital emergency department with forehead swelling 2 weeks after he had experienced 4 days of upper respiratory ... made, and he was treated with intravenous cefuroxime for 2 days followed by oral cefuroxime for 9 days. In addition to ... and the forehead swelling decreased slightly. However, 2 days after stopping the antibiotics, the forehead swelling ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark W. Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC March 2017
... been a steady increase in overdose deaths over the past 2 years, December 2016 had the highest monthly total of ... have contributed to the current opioid overdose crisis.[ 2,3 ] In response, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM June 2017
... vaccinated individuals, IgM may be absent or short-lived,[ 2 ] and detection of IgG, traditionally associated with ...
Letters / BY: Marisa Wan, MD, FRCPC July/August 2017
... cognition, psychiatric health, and physical functioning.[ 2 ] Your letter is a helpful reminder that we all bear ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2017
... of TRAP have clearly established health effects.[ 2 ] These include upper respiratory tract irritation, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC October 2017
... VV include stasis dermatitis, skin pigmentation ( Figure 2 ), skin hardening (detmatosclerosis), atrophie blanche, ... developed by the American Venous Forum ( Table 1 ).[ 2 ] Indications for treatment include leg pain, persistent ... 20 to 30 mm Hg, 30 to 40 mm Hg, and 40 to 50 mm Hg ( Table 2 ). With the exception of the lowest strength stockings (10 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2017
... shot gave me the flu.” “What do you mean?” “Well, 2 days after my visit I came down with a runny nose and a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Melissa McLaws, DVM, PhD April 2017
... that less than 0.5% of bats are actually infected.[ 2 ]  Other species in BC that have tested positive for ...
Letters / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC September 2017
... Chinese herbal medicine, and an accompanying editorial[ 2 ] highlighting the need for conformity with acceptable ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... the law of accelerating returns affects every industry.[ 2 ] We are now seeing entire operating systems and industries ... two new VR technologies have been developed in the last 2 years—PeriopSim, a medical simulation app used to train ... our thinking.” —Albert Einstein Clinical Articles Part 2: Working together for change: The future of BC’s health ...