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News / BY: Shannon Waters, MD, September 2014
... with a higher burden of HIV infection” compared to every 5 years for the general population.[ 1,2 ] Aboriginal people ... Authority’s Indigenous Cultural Competency training,[ 5 ] to ensure testing, follow up, and treatment is carried ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC May 2014
... providers offer an HIV test: •    Routinely (every 5 years) to all patients aged 18 to 70 years. •    ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, December 2014
... often resolving spontaneously within 4 days.[ 1-3 , 5 ] Children who experience such large local reactions after ... with the needle at a 90-degree angle to the skin.[ 5 ] The aluminum adjuvant contained in DaPT vaccines may ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... A call for a coordinated dementia strategy in BC.”[ 5 ] The paper called for BC to develop a multifocal, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... studies. 4.    Prospective screening studies. 5.    Randomized control trials. To date, PSA is the only ... needed for PSA to return to baseline levels after DRE.[ 5 ] Cystoscopy can increase serum PSA levels fourfold, while ... the serum (as occurs in patients with Gleason score 4 or 5 cancers) its proteolytic activity is immediately ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan Wilson, BSc, April 2014
... whereas PLA is the most common form in North America,[ 5 ] and is usually the result of polymicrobial infection.[ 6 ... patient’s vital signs were recorded as temperature 39.5°C, heart rate 116 beats per minute, blood pressure 92/62 ... A CT scan of the abdomen then confirmed the presence of a 5 x 4.4 x 3.2–cm multiloculated mass in the anterior right ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Horkoff, MD, FRCSC November 2014
... of progressive dysphagia along with weight loss of 7.5 kilograms over the previous 6 months. A CT scan of the neck ... bodies with the preservation of vertebral disc height.[ 5 ] The pathology most commonly involves the thoracic ... 9 ] Complete resolution of dysphagia was reported at 5 to 20 days after surgery, with no recurrence after an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, July/August 2014
... the wall of the aortic arch during fetal development.[ 5-7 ] Case data A 49-year-old female presented to hospital ... (150 mg twice daily) and hydrochlorothiazide (12.5 mg daily). Physical examination of the patient revealed ... nasal cannula. The jugular venous pressure was elevated at 5 cm. There was a grade 2/6 mid-peaking systolic murmur ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... coronary heart disease indicators were met rose from 60.5% in 1998 to 78.2% in 2003. For patients with asthma and ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... cancers at a stage when they can be optimally treated. 5. The authors admit the randomized trial data were obtained ...