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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, December 2014
... and tetanus (DaPT) containing vaccine at 18 months and 4 to 6 years of age, respectively. These are commonly known ... immunity stimulated by acellular pertussis products.[ 4 ] Regardless of the reason, these reactions are self-limited, often resolving spontaneously within 4 days.[ 1-3 , 5 ] Children who experience such large local ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... for regular ground crews from Williams Lake can be 3 to 4 hours or more. There are ambulance stations in Alexis Creek ... goes quickly because I’m busy. The trip home is often at 4 a.m. and, for me, the 3-hour trip drags on because I ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2014
... moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, and this falls to 4% for kids aged 12 to 17. Missing from the report was a ... school kids to be active for 60 minutes per day for 4 weeks. We ask doctors from across the province to devote ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joanne Stares, MHSc, April 2014
... rather than factors related to latitude itself.[ 1,3,4 ] There are few reported cluster investigations of IBD, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Raymond Li, BSc(Pharm), MSc November 2014
... of patients, with seizures in 0.8% and hallucinations in 0.4%. Almost 25% of patients were evaluated at a health care ... the popular user experience website, Erowid.org, in 2001.[ 4 ] The first report of recreational use of bupropion in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... and early childhood periods impact health throughout life[ 4,5 ] and into future generations.[ 4,6 ] Children experiencing food insecurity have poorer ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2014
... a person with needs and hopes that might mirror our own. 4.    Reluctance to allow a complication (in this ... infection is the most common sequel of advanced dementia[ 4 ] and a likely cause of death for this woman. 5.    The ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... province, which is much higher than the reported rate of 7.4% for Kenya as a whole.[ 1 ] We suspect this is due to a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Takai, MSc September 2014
... assessment (1 week), treatment (6 weeks), and extension (4 weeks). Postsurgical treatment: Worker-patients who have ... week), treatment (8 weeks), and two possible extensions (4 weeks each). All registered claimants are entitled to a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... be reinstituted using adult GHD diagnostic criteria.[ 4 ] Survivors of pediatric brain tumors treated with cranial ... GHRT and re-evaluating following a trial of GHRT.[ 4 , 17 ] Thresholds decrease significantly for diagnosis of ... adolescence to adulthood should be less than 5 µg/L.[ 4,9 , 20 ] Thus, the accepted threshold for response to ...