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Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC January/February 2001
... 1 ), with an overall mortality for the past 10 years of 8.5%, similar to the reported national rate for 1995–96 of 6.5%.[ 1 ] This translates to a population incidence of ... of meningitis, without signs of shock, is approximately 5%. Children under 5 years of age suffer the greatest burden ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC January/February 2001
... (27% in 1998–99 and 31% in 1999–2000) experienced a 5-day delay in reporting the first clinical symptoms. This ... prevention and should be viewed as the standard of care.[ 5 ] A national survey of long-term care facilities in 1991 found that 78.5% of residents were vaccinated with influenza vaccine.[ 6 ] ...
Letters / BY: Dawn Graham January/February 2001
... 2000 issue of the  British Columbia Medical Journal  [42(5):241] by Dr Cairns, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris A. Speropoulos, BSc March 2001
... 3. Run equipment trials 4. Review equipment trials 5. Explore the funding process While there is a linear aspect ... and he can add other devices to his systems over time. 5. Explore the funding process Funding for assistive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charles Brasfield, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2001
... Resick’s cognitive processing therapy for rape trauma.[ 5 ] Conclusion The Indian residential schools are now closed, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin C.L. Lai, MD, MSc April 2001
... the crude annual incidence rates of PD ranged from 1.5 per 100,000 population in China in 1986 to 14.8 in Finland ... prevalence decreased from 103.9 per 100,000 to 99.5.[ 5 ] There was no significant difference in incidence between ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD April 2001
... more caudal putamen most severely affected  Figure 1 .[ 5 ] Most often, Parkinson-plus syndromes such as multiple ... to treatment. Both our group and that of Leenders[ 5 ] have found evidence for reduced FDOPA in fluctuators but ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edith McGeer, PhD April 2001
... and on oligodendroglia in the substantia nigra in PD [ 4,5 ] and familial PD.[ 6 ] Such oligodendroglia have been ... either absent or very weak in control substantia nigra.[ 4,5 ] Microglia Microglia constitute about 10% of all glia. ... nigra and striatum, not only in idiopathic PD, [ 5,8 ] but also in familial PD,[ 6 ] as well as in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM April 2001
... for "clinically definite idiopathic parkinsonism"[ 5 ] have loss of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons without ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ian R.A. Mackenzie, MD, FRCPC April 2001
... that such individuals may have presymptomatic PD,[ 2,5 ] others feel this indicates that Lewy bodies are not ...