Although methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) infection is a worldwide problem,
data on its significance among vascular surgery patients remain scant and conflicting. …

Editor’s note: The Geology and Mining series, edited by Dan Wood and Jeffrey Hedenquist,
is designed to introduce early-career professionals and students to a variety of topics in …

Background: The risks associated with colonoscopy performed through the British Columbia
Colon Screening Program (BCCSP) are not known. We aimed to determine the rate of …

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is
subjected to regulatory control by palmitate, and that nitric oxide (NO) is operative in palmitate-…

THE LANDSCAPE OF MEDICINE IS STREWN WITH LAPSES OF judgment and slips of the
knife and pen that mar the orderly lines of scientific practice. The Harvard Medical Practice …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of physician payment method on use of health care
resources. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of patient health care data collected for 3 years (…

The role of Paul Broca (1824–1880) in uncovering the cerebral or-ganization of language
function is well known. His declaration, made after considerable clinical study, that “we speak …

I read with interest the paper by Molavi and colleagues, 1 entitled “Clinical and operative
outcomes of patients with acute cholecystitis who are treated initially with imageguided …

With projections from the Australian federal government indicating an impending exacerbation
of the teacher shortage by 2025, it is timely to explore potential approaches that could …

Background: General surgeons play a vital role in the health care system and require hospital
resources to provide patient care. British Columbia had 5.0 general surgeons per 100 000 …