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Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2016
... the governing Conservative Party in a big way. Most people seem excited about the change in our federal ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make ... a response to patient experiences of poor quality dying. People were dying in hospital surrounded by machines that ... palliative care is involved in dying, its aim is to help people live as well as is possible until their natural death. ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB January/February 2016
... by physicians on the front lines—work that not enough people know about. In BC physicians are emerging as leaders ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, March 2016
... vagal tone followed by increased sympathetic tone. As people age, beta-receptor responsiveness decreases, leading ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2016
... If I wore glasses and ran a little gel through my hair people would still recognize me; how does Superman handle his ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... cardiomyopathy was the most common cause of SCD in young people in the Veneto region of Italy.[ 1 ] This finding, ... lead to ventricular fibrillation and is seen commonly in people of Southeast Asian ancestry. In European studies of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
Editorials / BY: Saul Isserow, MBBCh April 2016
... safe and beneficial active lifestyle that so many people enjoy is made even safer and more beneficial.  In the ...