1 Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 4 Vaccine Evaluation Centre, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape To...

E. Yip, P. Low, B. Mädler, C. Lebel, C. Beaulieu, L. Siegel, and A. Mackay Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Education and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Philips Medical Systems, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universit...

Authors’ Affiliations: Cancer Control Research Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Mary...

Background: Microneedling is recently used to treat skin scars mostly atrophic scars; however, there are limited data about its effectiveness on hypertrophic burn scars. Carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is an effective method for the treatment of burn scars. Here, we aim to compare the efficacy of microneedling to CO2 laser in the treatment of hypertrophic burn scars in a randomized clinical trial. M...

fungal pathogens could be isolated from sputum by classic and molecular methods. After 4–5 days, his temperature was 40°C, a productive cough with dyspnea was noted, and his condition deteriorated. A chest radiograph showed progression of the infiltrates, and a computed tomography scan of the abdomen and chest showed infiltrates near the pleura, suggesting encapsulated fluid (Figure). An ultras...

Cardiorespiratory and sensory responses to exercise in adults with mild cystic fibrosis 1 2 Bradley S. Quon, Sabrina S. Wilkie, Yannick Molgat-Seon, Michele R. Schaeffer, 3 Andrew H. Ramsook, Pearce G. Wilcox, Jordan A. Guenette 4 5 1 Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 6 Vancouver, BC, Canada 7 2 Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Providence...

BACKGROUND North American Chinese women have lower levels of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing than other population subgroups. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two alternative cervical cancer screening interventions for Chinese women living in North America. METHODS Four hundred and eighty-two Pap testing underutilizers were identified from community-based...