Background Despite clear evidence for the efficacy of lowering cholesterol levels, there is a
deficiency in its real-world application. There is a need to explore alternative strategies to …

Dyspnea is a cardinal symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and its
severity and magnitude increases as the disease progresses, leading to significant disability …

Muscle growth occurs during embryonic development and continues in adult life as regeneration.
During embryonic muscle growth and regeneration in mature muscle, singly nucleated …

BACKGROUND: Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of
asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 …

Objective To compare patients' adherence to therapy, expectations, satisfaction with pharmacy
services, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after the provision of pharmaceutical …

As researchers note, medical educators need to create situations to work with physicians in
training to help them attend to the development of their professional identities. While there is …

Skeletal muscle is a multinucleated syncytium that develops and is maintained by the fusion
of myoblasts to the syncytium. Myoblast fusion involves the regulated coalescence of two …

Adherence to asthma medications is generally poor and undermines clinical outcomes.
Poor adherence is characterized by underuse of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), often …

For years, standard asthma treatment has included short acting beta agonists (SABA),
including as monotherapy in patients with mild asthma symptoms. In the Global Initiative for …

Family physicians face many challenges when diagnosing asthma in preschool children.
These diagnostic challenges are compounded by variations in the natural history of early stage …