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Clinical Articles /
BY: Aaron Talsky, MD,
January/February 2011
... war zone injury.[ 2 ] In the US, approximately 2 million people will sustain a TBI each year, one-quarter of whom will ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ian Gillespie, MD
January/February 2011
... million. If we extrapolate from US data,[ 1 ] about 25000 people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in BC each ... and released from an emergency department. The number of people with TBI who are not seen in a hospital or emergency ... discussion on concussion attended by close to 40 people. Clearly, there is a broad-based willingness to ...
Letters /
BY: G. Turnbull,
March 2011
... It professes to assess the cognitive ability to drive of people who have medical issues or who are aging. It replaces ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jack Teng, PhD,
April 2011
... expanding human population and economic growth. More people are recreating and working in the human-wildlife ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM
April 2011
... 66.7% of respondents work in a region of more than 500000 people, while another 12.5% practise in a region of 300000 to 499999 people ( Figure 2 ). Data were also collected on the amount ... recommends a ratio of one rheumatologist for every 75000 people (oral communication with the Human Resources ...
Clinical Articles
May 2011
... disease is relatively common, affecting up to 1 in 5000 people. Mitochondrial dysfunction secondary to other disease ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC,
May 2011
... manifestations (or no manifestations at all) in different people. Epidemiology of mitochondrial diseases Primary ... disorders of the respiratory chain affect up to 1 in 5000 people and are much more common than previously realized.[ 4 ... disease is actually common and affects hundreds of people in British Columbia, including some members of ...
Letters /
BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD
May 2011
... own 12-bed hospitals. There we met and treated the local people and saw life first-hand. Four years later we headed ... entered psychiatry. It was he who recognized that several people there were not mentally ill but had treatable organic ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
June 2011
... in the 10 highly endemic states in US is 29.2 per 100000 people,[ 9 ] indicating important differences in both disease ... the cause of this syndrome and therapeutic options for people who are suffering from its debilitating symptoms. ...
President's Comment /
BY: Nasir Jetha, MD,
July/August 2011
... know which ones they are. • Get moving—active people have reduced stress levels and more energy. ...