Abortion: an open letter to the CMA.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
How safe is diagnostic ultrasonography?
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
CHA delegates urged to debate fundamental health care issues.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Reuse of permanent cardiac pacemakers.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Cardiac pacemakers are part of a growing group of expensive implantable electronic devices; hospitals in which 100 pacemakers are implanted per year must budget over $300 000 for these devices. This cost represents a considerable burden to health care resources. Since the "life-span" of modern pacemakers often exceeds that of the patients who recei...
The Vancouver Lymphadenopathy-AIDS Study: 4. Effects of exposure factors, cofactors and HTLV-III seropositivity on numbe...
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Results of testing for antibody to human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-III) and absolute numbers of helper T cells in 219 participants in the Vancouver Lymphadenopathy-AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) Study were analysed. The mean absolute helper T-cell counts in the 141 HTLV-III seronegative and the 78 seropositive men were 897/mL and 659/m...
The involuntary house husband: recipe for disaster?
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Extrahepatic tuberculous pseudotumour.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Lactobezoar in a low-birth-weight neonate.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
The influence of medical journals.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Limited usefulness of lymphocytopenia in screening for AIDS in hospital patients.
Published in Canadian Medical Association journal
Lymphocytopenia is often present in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and has been suggested as a useful screening test for AIDS. Of 625 patients consecutively admitted to an acute care university teaching hospital 91 (15%) were found to have a lymphocyte count of less than 1 X 10(9)/L, and 25 (4%) had a count of less than 0....
