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Letters / BY: Robert Grist, MD January/February 2002
... hormone support for women with symptoms of menopause [ 2001;43(8):446]. Prevention of heart attack is a serious ... HERS study, ably reviewed by Dr Hammell in your October issue [2001;43(8):447], led to questions about the earlier ... Women’s Health Initiative randomized prospective study may afford us even better data on this by 2005. For our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... ). As described in  Dr Samuel Krikler's article  in this issue of the  BCMJ , a screening study of 1905 adult men ... of iron overload or deficiency and focus on those that may require phlebotomy therapy. However, it also detects a ... Life and Health Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001) about insurance ratings based on hemochromatosis ...
Letters / BY: Philip M. Alderman, MD March 2002
... “Male contraception and no-scalpel vasectomy” ( BCMJ 2001;43(10):560 ). Dr Rich is concerned about truancy rates, ... who do not return for semen analysis, and whose failures may therefore remain unreported. He affirms that such rates ... and rates. [1]   But this is largely a non-issue as, in my experience, truants whose vasectomies fail ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD June 2002
The work of Dr Charles Galasko and colleagues  in this issue of the BCMJ outlines some of the claims rates in ... these provisos, there are some general statistics that may be of interest. The whiplash rate in various Western ... Columbia, oral and written communications, June and July 2001.) In BC, the whiplash claims rate is currently about 900 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... decisions (see  Anderson and colleagues   in this issue). Although there is evidence for the efficacy of ... improved outcomes in patients with MDD. Further benefits may include better use of fiscal resources, optimal use of ... or in a mental health clinic) 377 198‡ 82%|| * BC Stats, 2001. † Health Information Access Centre, 2001. Note that ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... Dixon-Warren’s request, which appeared in the June 2002 issue [ BCMJ  2002;44(5):234], asking for feedback on the ... manner. Unfortunately I feel now, as I felt in October 2001 when it was published, that the brochure from Dr ... conventional practice. Phraseology in the brochure like “may not be effective or safe,” “have not been ...