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Clinical News from Canada’s Medical Associations & Healthcare Companies
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| February 2018 • Volume 5 Issue 2 |
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NEWS
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Delivering Bad News
Physicians are regularly required to deliver bad news including serious or chronic disease, poor prognosis, and terminal illness. In this article from Medical News Today, learn strategies for effectively and compassionately communicating difficult information to patients.
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Increasing Incidence of Kidney Stones
Kidney stones generate a large volume of emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and represent a significant burden both in healthcare costs and lost worker productivity. Researchers investigated the incidence of symptomatic and asymptomatic kidney stones over three decades in this study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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Low-Fat vs Low-Carb Diets
Identifying effective weight loss methods is critical to tackling the global obesity epidemic. In this study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers investigated the effect of low-fat vs low-carb diets on weight loss and the association with genotype pattern or insulin secretion.
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HCP CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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PrEP Update - How generic medicines are helping reshape
pre‑exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Live, accredited (CFPC, CCCEP and OPQ) webinar
March 08, 2018 8:00 PM EST
March 09, 2018 12:00 PM EST
Registration
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