Tick (lat. Acarina) on a Daisy flower
Clinical Articles / April 2011 BY: Jack Teng, PhD,, Robbin Lindsay, PhD,, Karen Bartlett, PhD,, Brian Klinkenberg, PhD,, Antonia Dibernardo, BSc, MLT,, Heidi Wood, PhD,, Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM

Background Concerns about zoonoses Several species of ticks—arthropod ectoparasites such as Ixodes pacificus—transmit pathogens that cause the most frequently contracted zoono­ses in North... Read More

Selective focus of bottles with medicine, whilst a man has his head wrapped in the background
Clinical Articles / January/February 2011 BY: Aaron Talsky, MD,, Laura R. Pacione, MSc,, Tammy Shaw, MD,, Lori Wasserman, MD,, Adam Lenny, BSc, BA,, Amol Verma, BSc,, Gillian Hurwitz,, Robyn Waxman, MD,, Andrew Morgan, MD,, Shree Bhalerao, MD, FRCPC,

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is commonly defined as an insult to the brain from an external force that causes temporary or permanent impairment in functional, psychosocial, or physical abilities.1 It... Read More