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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mel Krajden, OBC, MD, FRCPC June 2013
... but ex­isting treatments are poorly tolerated. In 3 to 5 years well-tolerated combination antivirals will cure ... ongoing HCV transmission.[ 3 ]  Within the next 3 to 5 years virtually all HCV infections will be curable with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2013
... The patient’s dose of alfacalcidol was increased from 0.5 µg daily to 0.75 µg daily and she was continued on ... to basal ganglia calcification have not been identified.[ 5 ] Other areas affected by BCG include the thalamus, dentate ... , 6 ] Such intracranial calcification occurs in 0.3% to 1.5% of patients with hypoparathyroidism, and is often detected ...
News March 2013
... $307482 in 2010–11, a 3.1% increase—the smallest in 5 years, according to a report from the Canadian Institute ... earlier. The remainder came from alternative payments ($5.5 billion), with Ontario accounting for $2.7 billion and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
... costs. A recent BC-based study determined that even a 5% increase in the number of patients who visit the same ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2013
... reducing the death rate from infections in Canada to only 5%[ 2 ]—a far cry from the situation 100 years ago when ... from outspoken celebrities like Jennifer MacCarthy[ 5 ] to various alternative medicine trades,[ 6 ] but it is ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: J. Robinson, MD, October 2013
... for these patients as early as 4 weeks, they were 4 to 5 times more likely to be worse off in the long run. By ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP March 2013
... and on their self-reported degree of enjoyment of life.[ 5 , 6 ] The extent to which chronic pain interferes with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... cancer, for an incidence rate of 1.20 per 100 000.[ 5 ] Such a low incidence rate may not satisfy a key criterion ... of the study was to examine the rate of cancer in four 5-year cohorts according to the screening history of each cohort in the preceding 5 years (see  Table ).  For younger age cohorts, the data ...
News April 2013
... believe the health care system is better than it was 5 years ago, a new Ipsos-Reid survey has found. Ontario comes ... asked respondents to assess access to care over the past 5 years, with 29% saying it is easier and 25% judging it to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM October 2013
... aged 6 to 59 months, and for those with a risk factor aged 5 to 17 years.  LAIV is not approved for use in children ...