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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Lukac, MPH October 2016
... as HIV impacts the clinical manifestations of syphilis[ 2 ] and may lead to poorer treatment responses.[ 3 ] As well, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... in diagnostic imaging. Pregnancy-related CVD At present, 0.2% to 4.0% of all pregnancies in Western industrialized ... only current guidelines for managing CVD during pregnancy[ 2 ] emphasize the following aspects of care: Counseling and ... (WHO) classification of maternal cardiovascular risk[ 2 ] is the most straightforward and helps to stratify ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rosemary Basson, MD, FRCP(UK) March 2016
... is most commonly due to provoked vestibulodynia (PVD).[ 2 ] Despite inclusion of PVD as a topic in undergraduate, ... pain is associated with overgrowth of Candida albicans.[ 2 ] Typically, a severe yeast infection is treated but the ... more women. Participants attend eight weekly sessions of 2.25 hours each and complete home assignments to nurture ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS October 2016
... most patients being discharged on the day of surgery.[ 1 , 2 ] Compared with in-patient surgery, outpatient surgery has ... app and secure password-protected online account ( Figure 2 ). Patients in the e-monitoring group were asked to take a ... online were analyzed. The chi-square test, student 2-tailed t test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used on ...
Obituaries / BY: John P. Whitelaw, MDCM July/August 2016
... Atlantic to the Caribbean, where they stayed for nearly 2 years. During that time Dr Hammond worked in Tortola, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... annual incidence of 1.9/1000 for conductors versus 2.7/1000 for drivers). Furthermore, sudden cardiac death ... for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death (CVD).[ 2-4 ] Physical activity is an important determinant of ... 1 ) is discussed by Warburton and colleagues in Part 2 of this theme issue. To examine whether low levels of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, December 2016
... Care Services at 604 232-7787 or 1 866 244-6404 (press 2). —Peter Rothfels, MD Chief Medical Officer and Director ...
News November 2016
... pulmonary disease (COPD) is expected over the next 2 decades, according to a new study from the University of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP June 2016
... percentile for BLL for Canadian adults is approximately 0.2 to 0.3 µmol/L. Adverse health effects associated with ...
News / BY: Erin Higgins, January/February 2016
... the median age of Canadians was 39.9 years, compared to 26.2 years in 1971. Seniors have become the fastest-growing age ...