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Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2016
... Racial persecution included deportation of all Japanese people, naturalized or not, to prisoner-of-war camps in the ... At that time universities refused admission to many Asian people. All Japanese individuals were also refused ... the citizens of Lillooet, Bridge River, Bralorne, all the people living along the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway, ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB January/February 2016
... by physicians on the front lines—work that not enough people know about. In BC physicians are emerging as leaders ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... caregivers provide an estimated 70% to 75% of care to people receiving home care. That translates to roughly 8 ... on any given day. In BC there are approximately 1 million people filling this role, most of whom are caring for a ... family caregivers and, in turn, negatively impacting the people they care for and generating additional pressures on ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2016
... or #physicianleadership? If you’re like many people and professionals, these social media terms may be ... forum 2 years ago. Research shows that more and more people, including professionals, are relying on social media ...