ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 9/5/2011
World group wants to make anaphylaxis everyone’s business
Guidelines expected to be especially useful in primary care - 9/5/2011
Rotavirus vaccines have risk of bowel obstruction
International experts call for global immunization-—with monitoring - 9/5/2011
Remicade: now approved for ulcerative colitis in children
First biologic agent approved for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis in children. - 9/5/2011
Rate of hip fractures in over-60s is decreasing
But study conducted in British Columbia shows actual numbers are still rising - 9/5/2011
Practitioners sound off on aboriginal health
Funding problems hampering maternal and child care, Health Council says - 9/5/2011
Ortho surgery is noisy business
Red Deer surgeon finds OR tools as noisy as those in his woodworking shop - 9/5/2011
New OMA work-stress program off to busy start
Dr. Michael Kaufmann, director of the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Health Program (PHP), says that by 2008—over a decade after the PHP was created to deal with physicians’ mental health and addiction issues—he became so overwhelmed with requests, “I simply had to say I couldn’t do this anymore without help.” - 9/5/2011
Low revision rate found for ACL reconstruction
Study based on Ontario Health Insurance Plan data also shows 14- to 19-year-olds most likely to need revision - 9/5/2011
Knee replacement ORs are a wasteland
Audit shows procedure results in a lot of waste; Ontario hospital puts greater effort into recycling as a result