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News January/February 2017
... Project MinE will map the full DNA profiles of 15 000 people with ALS and 7500 control subjects to establish a ... Project MinE would allow for the stored DNA profiles of people with ALS to be contributed to the project, and it ...
News / BY: Eric Wong January/February 2017
... of becoming disabled vary among individuals, but for many people the odds might be higher than you would expect, and it ...
Obituaries / BY: Meryl Begert January/February 2017
... they discovered their life-long delight in meeting new people and facing new adventures. Herb graduated from the ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... prolonged dying with poor symptom control has made people even more fearful of the dying process. And society ... which the MAID is provided, because it is well known that people’s desire for hastened death can change over time[ 1 ... a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death with Dignity program, ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS January/February 2017
... with you. RAAs will help you connect with the right people and the appropriate resources at Doctors of BC to get ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... and the BCMA before it, has been blessed with many special people who have contributed to the success of the ... doctors of the province and protects the health of the people of BC. One such person is Mr Jim Gilmore, the ... They believed such laws unnecessarily intruded into people’s lives. The BCMA organized a petition that was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... phase 3 registration trials of mirabegron show efficacy in people older than 65 and 75, with evidence of safety over a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... risk are key to prevention. Over 80% of all fractures in people 50 years and older are caused by osteoporosis.[ 5 ] ... use; however, up to half of atypical fractures occur in people not exposed to bisphosphonates, complicating estimates ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark W. Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC March 2017
... by law enforcement. Most of the deaths have occurred among people with long-standing opiate use, and the explanation for ... the risk. There are myriad reasons and events that launch people into habitual drug use—trauma, personal tragedy, ... indifference to the pain, suffering, and even death of people who buy drugs from the illicit market. If we ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... has created a team sport–based exercise intervention for people with or recovering from cancer. The program will ...