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Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... in  Table 2 . PSA increases with age and is higher in people of certain races, such as African Americans. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... morbidity and mortality,[ 1 ] especially among elderly people, who are more likely to have comorbid conditions and ... of medication effects in older patients. Elderly people living in residential care facilities are at ...
Premise / BY: Margaret Reveley, November 2014
... their patients? What are the hidden dangers in untrained people like me even knowing what a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty ... When we start to see doctors’ waiting rooms filled with people holding computer printouts in their hands then we may ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... respiratory secretions, or close contact with infected people.[ 4 ] Peak EV transmission occurs in the summer and ... include hand washing and avoiding contact with ill people.  Summary A recent case in British Columbia ... know that hand washing and avoiding close contact with ill people can prevent transmission. A broad range of tests for ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... is equivalent to 30% of the available drugs on the market. People go to their family doctor with an average of four symptoms, and people with multiple diseases are now the norm.[ 12 ] Given ...