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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Vanessa Perrodou, RD December 2017
... (Six Months to Six Years): For Health Professionals[ 1 ] provide a framework for physicians to use to reverse the ... child-feeding expert Ellyn Satter. Before a child is 1 year old, where and when feedings take place should be led by infants and their hunger cues; after age 1, parents/caregivers take over the responsibility for where ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... value has been well documented in the medical literature.[ 1,2 ] Proven benefits for patients include the preservation ... Editorials Guest editorial: Caring for older adults, Part 1: The value of geriatric assessment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... the patient and provider are separated by distance.”[ 1 ] Although telemedicine has existed for decades, it has ... for telemedicine users in 29 BC regional districts ( Table 1 ). The number of users increased from 8282 in the first ... for a total of 25 431 users in a 2-year period ( Figure 1 ). The total number of consultations was 79 576, and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alexa R.Y. Dang, BSc July/August 2017
... attention on patients who need the care of a specialist.[ 1 ]  When a patient finishes undergoing RT, a treatment ... in BC but has the smallest treatment population ( Table 1 ). The primary goal of this study was to determine the ... treated with RT at the BCCA Centre for the North between 1 November 2012 (when the centre opened in Prince George) and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM October 2017
... BC and a similar proportion from other parts of Canada.[ 1 ] Since the mid-1930s, there have been several documented ... soft-shelled tick  Ornithodoros hermsi  ( Figure 1 ).[ 3 ] The identification of TBRF is made difficult by the ... 33).[ 5 ] Samples were considered positive if dilutions of 1:256 or more conferred fluorescence and samples ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jay Slater, MD January/February 2017
... raising the spectre of interactions and side effects.[ 1 ] Further, seniors may believe that pain is a normal part ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD April 2017
... of a medical event happening on a flight is approximately 1 in 604, while the chance that a physician will be onboard a ... stroke and cardiac arrest were relatively infrequent.[ 1 ] When assuming care, it is important for the most ...
News July/August 2017
... 1995 and 2008. The researchers found that there was a 1.8-fold increased risk of stroke, a 1.6-fold increased risk of migraine, and a 1.3-fold increased risk of both depression and abnormalities ...
News / BY: Erin Connors November 2017
... and physicians agreed to create CME and PDI funds.[ 1 ] PDI was first introduced as a tax-free monthly benefit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... team is essential to the practice of geriatric medicine.[ 1 ] A good example of this can be seen in continence clinics ...