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- 5/18/2009
Billing number system may soon end, says N.B. health minister
Provincial health minister Mike Murphy says the days of N.B.'s much reviled billing-number quota system may soon come to an end. - 5/18/2009
AUA: Prostate cancer study touts benefits of watchful waiting
New active surveillance parameters may allow for more individualized care. - 5/18/2009
AUA: Obesity linked to increased risk for urinary tract infection
Risk of kidney infection five times higher and risk of bladder infection more than double that of non-obese patients - 5/18/2009
Ah, to be a salaried MD - with a pension - during a downturn
Wheeling her three-quarter-tonne Suburban down the gravel road of her Ladner, B.C. farm where Dr. Janet Friesen keeps horses, the dreariness of the typical West Coast winter was matched in bleakness by the economic news on the radio. - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Watch for rotator cuff injuries in wheelchair users
Risk factors include increasing duration of paraplegia, female sex and higher activity level. - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Thumbs down on poor thumb protection in lacrosse
College athletes' high injury rate blamed on glove construction - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Middle-aged patients benefit from ACL reconstruction
Long-term followup reveals most continue to have good knee function decades later - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Middle-aged patients benefit from ACL reconstruction
Long-term followup reveals most continue to have good knee function decades later - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Brace beats surgery as Achilles tendon repair
Canadian randomized trial overturns common belief that operating is the better approach - 5/18/2009
AAOS: Atypical stress fractures predict poor bone health
Breaks above the knee may point to silent disease in active women. - 5/15/2009
PEG 3350 for childhood constipation
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3350 is a safe and effective long-term laxative in pediatric populations, but only limited studies are available for its use in children younger than two years of age.