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Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... respectively.  Other possible roles for BNP BNP may eventually have a role as a treatment agent, given that ... from the Framingham study specifically addressed this issue and looked at BNP and NT-ANP for detection of elevated ... Society has included a reference to BNP in its 2003 practice guideline (available at  www.ccs.ca  under ...
Letters / BY: Eric Smith, MD January/February 2004
... by Dr McGowan and Ms Nightingale on hospitalists ( BCMJ 2003;45[8]:391-394 ), which examined differences in patient ... dated July 2003. That the conclusions in this study may influence health care planning is worrisome and we feel ... Dr McGowan and Ms Nightingale for raising this important issue that needs to be debated fully within the medical ...
Letters / BY: H. Martin Gough, MD March 2004
Dr A. Krisman’s letter in the November issue of the  BCMJ [2003;45(9):431]  criticizing the cesarean section rate of ... interference were indolence, ignorance, and avarice. This may still be part of the problem, but I suspect that today ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... continued its westward spread across North America in 2003, but did not enter British Columbia. The risk that the ... illnesses were West Nile fever, a dengue-like illness that may present with fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, ... to the related paper by Dr Bigham on page 220 of this issue of the BCMJ. Reportability in BC Physicians must report ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... which allow for the exclusion of metabolic disorders that may adversely effect cognitive functioning though rarely ... contraindications (see articles referring to ChEIs in this issue:  “Current therapy,” and  “Treatment Efficacy ... Study methods and baseline results. Neuroepidemiology 2003;22:265-274. Our understanding of Alzheimer disease (AD) ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... very apprehensive about the costs of treatment. This theme issue provides an up-to-date clinical perspective on AD care ... (TREAD) consensus conference, which was held in January 2003 to address state-of-the-art symptomatic treatment for ... the use of ChEIs in BC is equal to other provinces. This may be the most telling cost-effectiveness study of all. ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1]  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the BC Centre for ... reveals that practices concerning HIV test counseling may not be optimal. Common shortcuts in counseling—giving ... to generalize from this sample, primarily because of the issue of self-selection. Physicians who are more involved in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... tight blood sugar control with insulin therapy may not prevent all serious complications of diabetes and is ... who have received at least one islet transplant as of June 2003. Regarding the three primary indications for islet ... Transplant Program is involved in a study to address this issue by comparing outcomes in transplant recipients with ...