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Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make ... a response to patient experiences of poor quality dying. People were dying in hospital surrounded by machines that ... palliative care is involved in dying, its aim is to help people live as well as is possible until their natural death. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: David Sheps, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCSC, January/February 2016
... represented short-term disability costs. The majority of people suffered fractures from falls, motor vehicle ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, March 2016
... vagal tone followed by increased sympathetic tone. As people age, beta-receptor responsiveness decreases, leading ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2016
... risk of occupationally acquired TB is low. Nevertheless, people who work with high-risk groups may occasionally be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... cardiomyopathy was the most common cause of SCD in young people in the Veneto region of Italy.[ 1 ] This finding, ... lead to ventricular fibrillation and is seen commonly in people of Southeast Asian ancestry. In European studies of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
... reads, “The following findings are so common in people without low back pain that although their presence may ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
... oxide abuse specifically, but it is estimated that 40% of people who claim to use inhalants concomitantly abuse nitrous ...