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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... them of ongoing care throughout their illness as many people mistake a DNAR decision as no treatment as well as no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2008
... mg • Age 71 and older: 1200 mg  However, for those people who have been diagnosed with hypertension, heart ... Journal study published in April 2007 determined that people who ate a salt-reduced diet were 25% to 30% less ... of a few weeks. Sodium is an acquired taste, so most people will need to be weaned off it. It takes 6 to 12 weeks ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... If you are anything like me (one of those average people who put on weight in their thirties and forties), once ... with normal weight unfit individuals, the obese fit people had a lower mortality than those who were unfit and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2008
... to reduce the impact of injury, illness, and age on people’s lives and work, and help them remain fully engaged ... called “preventing needless work disability by helping people stay employed” for the American College of ... guideline answers two fundamen­tal questions: Why do some people who develop common problems like backache, wrist pain, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Greg Meloche, PhD, RPsych June 2008
... and reminders of the event and may: • Avoid activities, people, and places that remind them of the event. ... wariness and being easily startled. Recovery Many people who experience a traumatic event recover and resume ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... fatal motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia—127 people were killed and 3400 were injured.  Injured, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD September 2008
... what you need to know. If you’re an employer—you hire people on a full-time, part-time, casual, or piecemeal ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD September 2008
... to produce vitamin D in our skin from October to March. People with darker skin, those who don’t go into the sun often, those who cover their skin, and people over 50 years may require supplements.  • Current ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2008
... everyone’s advantage for each of us, physicians and lay people alike, to do our homework and determine each ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2008
... My riding transit means one less car on the road. If more people took transit, even just one day a week, there would be ...