Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Medical residents in Quebec believe 24-hour call violates Charter rights -CMAJ April 28, 2009.Related Link:Extended work shifts and the risk of motor vehicle crashes among interns.N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 13;352(2):125-34.These findings reveal that the schedule of present-day resident physicians in the United States is far different from that ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
As a Canadian, I would not place my private medical information in a site based in the United States such as Google Health. On this site you can input information such as your age, your medication list and your personal medical history.
See Google Health Tour
TechCrunch - Google Health: A Quick ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for June 17, 2008:
Industry handouts: enough is enough | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"In an effort to combat the perception that medical education has become largely tainted by the influence of the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries, an Association of American Medical Colleges task force argues ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for February 12, 2008:
Cigarette ads return to Canadian magazines | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"For the past 10 years, however, one product has been absent from Canadian magazine ads: cigarettes. Now, much to the chagrin of anti-smoking advocates, they're back."
Can a ban on tobacco advertising reduce ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for January 2009:
Complications of nonphysician-supervised laser hair removal | Canadian Family Physician Journal -
"Characteristic lesions typically appear on the neck, face, forearm, and groin as hyperpigmented macules; other side effects include skin pigmentation, scarring, reticulate erythema, and ocular complications. These side effects are more common when ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for July 15, 2008:
The missing link in tobacco control | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"The World Health Organization estimates that, around the globe, 1.3 billion smokers purchase 10 million cigarettes every minute, and that every 8 seconds somebody dies from a tobacco-related disease. If current trends ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for March 11, 2008:
Ending the sexist blame game | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"More often than not, questions of access to health care rest on the availability of health care professionals. In recent weeks, our colleagues and medical students have expressed deep concern about media reports ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for May 6, 2008:
Bringing a research base to psychiatry | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"In this era of evidence-based medicine, the scarcity of high-quality evidence for mental health care is striking. Mental health practitioners often cannot obtain useful information to guide their clinical decisions, a situation ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Irritable bowel syndrome ; Medical Journal Club article for February 2009:
Irritable bowel syndrome | Canadian Family Physician Journal -
"Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a complex multi-factorial disorder resulting from brain-gut dysregulation."
Are complementary and alternative medicine treatments useful?
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for June 3, 2008:
Canada's pathology | June 3, 2008 -
"Canada's population has grown, our understanding of disease has evolved, and screening programs and novel targeted therapies requiring confirmation of appropriate targets in tissues have been developed. With these advances, the pathologist's volume of work has increased ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Family physicians’ perspectives on care of dementia patients and family caregivers.
Can Fam Physician Vol. 54, No. 7, July 2008
According to this study primary care doctors should be following the Third Canadian Consensus Conference on dementia .
The doctors’ offices did not maintain any substantive or up-to-date lists of community resources, handouts, ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for August 26, 2008:
Cancer and cholesterol: understanding the V-shaped association in patients with diabetes | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"The association between high cholesterol levels and increased risk of cancer has been a long-standing area of interest and investigation because the pathway for cholesterol synthesis may ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Rebuttal: Do nurse practitioners pose a threat to family physicians?: NO Rebuttal: Do nurse practitioners pose a threat to family physicians?: YES Can Fam Physician 2009 55: 22 .
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Medical Journal Club article for April 8, 2008:
Private health clinics remain unregulated in most of Canada | Canadian Medical Association Journal -
"Provincial governments and governing medical colleges across Canada are scrambling to regulate and monitor private medical facilities as anxious patients languishing on waiting lists look outside the public system ...
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