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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2013
... Enteropathy (Celiac Disease). 2006. Accessed 4 March 2013. ... diet. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2008;6:753. Accessed 4 March 2013. ... cohort study. Gastroenterology 2005;129:454. Accessed 4 March 2013. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16083702 . ... before testing for coeliac disease. Ac­cessed 4 March 2013. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew J. Coldman, PhD November 2013
... recommendations.[ 2 , 3 ] The CTFPH used the GRADE scale[ 4 ] to present their recommendations for women of average ... that screening mammography resulted in overdiagnoses in 5.4% of cases when invasive breast cancer was considered, and ... prevented) for women without ( Table 3 ) and with ( Table 4 ) a history of breast cancer in a first-degree relative. ...
News / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD January/February 2013
... S. Lang, Jason R. Frank (eds). 2011. ISBN 978-1-926588-09-4. Kindle edition (Amazon): 636 pages. $50.06. This guide, ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... “Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations” (MMPR)[ 4 ]—a patient can now be approved for access to medical ...
News March 2013
... you drank and felt badly about it.” In a second session, 4 months later, participants were asked to report their ...
News / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG September 2013
... individuals between the ages of 50 and 74 years[ 4 ] and has been shown to be cost-effective for the health ... in clinical trials does not manifest until 7 years later.[ 4 , 8 ]  Screening is not appropriate in individuals over ... causes negates any benefit of colorectal cancer screening.4,8 Regardless of age, if a patient is not medically fit to ...
News May 2013
... followed by chemo­therapy drugs (12.1%) and opioids (7.4%). The report, “Adverse Drug Reaction-Related ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2013
... of dementia or cognitive impairment without dementia is 4% in 65-year-olds, and the prevalence of these conditions doubles every 4 years thereafter. According to DA Redelmeier and MB ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2013
... health spending is similar to that in Canada (11.4% of GDP), yet they have 50% more doctors, three times as ...
Letters / BY: John Miller, MD, July/August 2013
I have been doing locums half time for the past 4 years. Prior to that I worked as a full-service family ...