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News December 2018
... 6 months after a previous birth, researchers found a 1.2% risk of maternal mortality or severe morbidity. Waiting ... . News At least 1 year between pregnancies reduces risks for mother and baby ...
News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... This disease poses a global public health threat.[ 1 ] In 2016, about 10 million people fell ill with TB, and about 1.7 million died worldwide from the disease.[ 2 ] Despite ... BC Centre for Disease Control has been able to obtain a 1-year access to rifapentine through Health Canada’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kara Solmundson, MD, CCFP (SEM), Sport Med Dip, MSc April 2018
... type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancers would be prevented.[ 1 ] Physical activity is effective treatment and prevention ... more written exercise prescriptions 3 months following a 1-day workshop.[ 8 ] All patients are impacted by physical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Sugar, MD October 2018
... day surgery compared with approximately 65% in 2001.[ 1 , 2 ] Previously, when patients had longer hospital stays, ... tracking process called the red dot initiative ( Figure 1 ). A second round of more detailed data collection using ... during the study period, allowing us to estimate that 15.1% (138/915) of patients receiving surgery at the site made ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... a prevalent condition that affects about 15% of couples[ 1 ] and is commonly encountered by family physicians in the ... time the chances of pregnancy decline substantially.[ 1 ] After 1 year, 85% of couples will have achieved a pregnancy, while ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Grazia Salvo, MD July/August 2018
... while at higher doses it activates opioid receptors.[ 1 ] The use of kratom in North America has been documented ... calls increased in number from 2014–2017 ( Figure 1 ). Physicians made up 80% of callers, unusual as the ... findings included tachycardia (n = 2), hypertension (n = 1), and elevated liver function tests (n = 1). The increase ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
... age-adjusted net survival rate for breast cancer of 88%,[ 1 ] while an American source notes that patients with stage I ... ] Addressing many of these concerns and complementing Part 1 of this theme issue, which dealt with diagnosis, Part 2 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jay Slater, MD January/February 2018
... of electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in Canada,[ 1 ] and digital records are improving clinical care and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... global prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes is 8.8%,[ 1 ] with Indigenous people being disproportionally affected.[ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Chang, MD, CCFP April 2018
... or gastric bypass are typically discharged from hospital 1 to 2 days after surgery and followed closely by a ... after sleeve gastrectomy with a reported incidence rate of 1.06%[ 1 ] and after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) with a reported ...