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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 ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, April 2008
People have every reason to be confused about Vancouver’s ... to do their job. There is a huge untold story here. People have become used to thinking of the DTES as a centre ... when 40 additional officers patrolled the DTES in 2003. People walked the street in safety, baby strollers were ...
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 ...
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, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
... he says. “When I attended this session I saw people debating and learning from each other—I saw family ...
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 ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... factors will improve outcomes in a subset of higher-risk people with type 2 diabetes. The ACCORD study is a ... factors will improve outcomes in a subset of higher-risk people with type 2 diabetes. On 6 February 2008, the National ... now? We all want to be careful to do no harm to high-risk people with Type 2 diabetes, so we need to look carefully at ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, November 2008
... It’s gratifying to hear the positive things that people are saying. Many participants feel the PSP has ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2008
... happened with the introduction of seatbelts, the number of people wearing helmets prior to legislation was small, but ... to encourage and enforce helmet use, the number of people wearing them will decline.[ 10 ] Clearly there is room ...