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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... them of ongoing care throughout their illness as many people mistake a DNAR decision as no treatment as well as no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2008
... mg • Age 71 and older: 1200 mg  However, for those people who have been diagnosed with hypertension, heart ... Journal study published in April 2007 determined that people who ate a salt-reduced diet were 25% to 30% less ... of a few weeks. Sodium is an acquired taste, so most people will need to be weaned off it. It takes 6 to 12 weeks ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... If you are anything like me (one of those average people who put on weight in their thirties and forties), once ... with normal weight unfit individuals, the obese fit people had a lower mortality than those who were unfit and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
For most people in British Columbia, the family physician provides an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... in­creases significantly after age 50.  More than 700 people die of CRC annually in BC alone, each losing an ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... fatal motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia—127 people were killed and 3400 were injured.  Injured, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... in many circumstances, they can be less effective with people who are not of Northern European heritage.  The ... disease, or stroke) there may be as many as 1.5 million people, or up to one-third of the BC population, who require ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... may present as challenging behaviors.  Because many people with developmental disability have limited verbal ... in­creased prevalence of mental illness and dementia in people with developmental disability compared with those in ... In BC, specialized community mental health services for people with developmental disability are provided by each of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... there are 111 family practice physicians per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... central Bri­tish Columbia serves a population of 12 000 people. From September 2002 to December 2004 (2.5 years), 677 ...