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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 ...
News /
BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla
March 2008
... were among the most civilized, cultured, and interesting people I have ever known… They were both modest and kindly, ...
News /
BY: Susan Attridge, RRT,
April 2008
... is allied health professionals. The text is applicable for people who want to learn about asthma education, but its main ...
Editorials /
BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
April 2008
... that the BCMJ is a classy little reminder that we are good people doing good work. This, as I’m sure you know, is the ... greatly reassured by such insight. These are indeed good people doing good work. In my academic life I am acutely ... your mammogram and colonoscopy. —TCR Editorials Good people, good work ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
April 2008
... Dr Richardson, you’d be surprised; there are lot of old people on Facebook.” I then checked his prostate even ... so I will defer judgment. Childbirth is painful, yet people are often happy with the end result (particularly ...
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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM
April 2008
... a major public health problem worldwide. Over 2.4 billion people in more than 90 countries—40% of the world’s ...
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, ...