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Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... illnesses and central nervous system infections.[ 5 ] Specifically, nonpolio EVs have increasingly been ... (AFP) in immunocompetent North American children.[ 5,6 ] Like poliovirus, enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) and others ... infections, is another serotype that may cause AFP.[ 5,6,8 ] EV-D68 was first identified in California in 1962 and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... found some surgeons lacked insight about their abilities.[ 5 ] In Canada, reports from the Goudge inquiry[ 6 ] into ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... to rise along with tuition, which recently increased by 5.1% between 2011/2012 and 2012/2013.[ 3 ] The Canadian ... influential general medical periodical in the world.”[ 5 ] Thus, these concerns are clearly also relevant to the ... science and the values of being a good physician.”[ 5 ] These values are exemplified by the selection criteria ...
News / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG March 2014
... which has been available in British Columbia for the past 5 years and has been covered by MSP since April 2013. Because ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mariana Brussoni, PhD, October 2014
... in their training programs.[ 4 ]  Langley and colleagues[ 5 ] postulate that baby boomers born between 1946 and 1965 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Yong, MD, PhD, FRCSC June 2013
... urological, or sometimes psychological comorbidity.[ 3 , 5 , 6 ]  Management of CPP can be challenging because of ... guidelines for CPP that support interdisciplinary care.[ 5 , 11 ] In recognition of the need for such care, the BC ...
News&Notes / BY: W. James Corbett, MD, November 2013
... policy, she was not to get out of bed for at least 5 days and eventually stayed in the hospital for 10. When the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc, January/February 2013
... CT, and MRI done by Butler and Stolberg found that only 2.5% were inappropriate.[ 8 ] The purpose of this study was to ... reviewers using the  Table 1  rating scale found that 5 of the 325 requisitions (1.5%) were “indeterminate,” and none were ...
News March 2013
... 1. Quebec 2. Ontario 3. New Brunswick 4. Nova Scotia 5. British Columbia 6. Manitoba 7. Alberta 8. Saskatchewan 9. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2013
... hFH affects an estimated 13 million people worldwide;[ 5 ] however, less than 25% of these individuals have thus far ... second- and third-degree relatives have a 25% and  12.5% likelihood of inheriting hFH respectively.[ 31 ] Cascade ...