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Letters / BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD December 2005
... in Letter #48: 1. We did not write that “statins may do more harm than good in patients without a myocardial ... in the SAE rate quoted in the publication.” However, in 2004 the statistician for PROSPER stated the opposite ... considered in depth in the academic literature. [3] One issue worth highlighting relates to mortality from statin ...
Letters / BY: Douglas C. Drummond, MD January/February 2005
In the September issue of this journal, several articles reviewed and endorsed ... have not proven their worth. To support their view, they may cite the AD2000 reported earlier this year. [2]  While ... new era of treatable Alzheimer disease,” September 2004  [1]  has generated and for the opportunity to respond ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rees, PhD, FRCPC December 2004
The authors of the BCMJ theme issue “The new era of treatable Alzheimer disease” ( September 2004;[7]:332-347 ) strongly condone the efficacy of ... will have learned of AD 2000 in the lay press during May. Because of the publication time line of the  BCMJ  ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2004
In this month’s issue there is a  letter  from a colleague complaining that ... on the treatment of fibromyalgia with acupuncture ( 2004;46(1):21-23 ) the BCMJ may have done a disservice to the doctors of BC. The author ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2004
... on medicare? Take some consolation in the fact that this may be one of the last editorials needed on this topic. On 8 June 2004, the day after the 60th anniversary of D-Day, I returned ... to avoid taking their own positions on this important issue and deferred to the CMA. For the most part, the ...
Letters / BY: Paul R. Latimer, MD July/August 2004
In the May issue of the BCMJ ( 2004;46[4]:164 ) you have defended your decision to publish ... research on disorders without defined pathology. You may still argue that your decision to publish an article has ...
Letters / BY: Roger S. Tonkin, MDCM, FRCPC, OBC June 2004
... is to be commended for its excellent two-part theme issue on child maltreatment, and Dr Marie Hay’s article, ... sexual exploitation of children and youth”  (BCMJ 2004;46(3):119-122)  is particularly timely and should help ... for parent support, and for males). Any BC organization may apply for funding and readers are referred to the ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2004
... the trial as presented in January/February’s issue of the  BCMJ  ( 2004;46[1]:21-23 ) does not appear to be a valid test of the ... therapies, and giving front-page status to such articles may give credit where it is not due. —Lloyd Oppel, MD ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: “Gay twin may offer an answer to mystery of our sexuality.” The ... and a strained marital relationship. In May of 2004, at age 38, in his home town of Winnipeg, he took his ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... The Index was published in paper form monthly from 1879 to 2004, suspending publication in occasional years for various ... We can proudly remember that, beginning with the 1993 issue, Canadian Family Physician became one of only 10 family ... the profession and the role of the medical librarian: this may be a shift from librarian as provider of information to ...