Clinical Articles /
BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD
April 2001
... and correlates with classical postmortem indices.[ 4 ] FDOPA may help in the differential diagnosis between ... in neurologically normal patients exposed to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine (MPTP, a neurotoxin that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: D.B. Clement, MD
December 2001
... at a cellular membrane level with changes in EMF. Sandyk [ 4] performed a study in which patients with Parkinson’s ... least a double thickness of fabric was used for more than 4 hours per day. Patients were excluded who had stump ... ( Figure 3 ), creatine phosphokinase, myoglobin, ( Figure 4 ), white blood cells, and neutrophils ( Figure 5 ) again ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: William J. Sullivan, BA, LLB, MCL
July / August 2001
... into force in British Columbia on 28 February 2000.[ 1-4 ] These words and their antonyms are, in practise, used ...
Letters /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
January/February 2001
... the British press ( Sunday Telegraph 24 September 2000:4) states that 39 patients at two fertility clinics in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP
October 2001
... and has cardioprotective and osteoprotective effects. [ 3,4,7,8] Both regular aerobic exercise [ 9] and periodic ... to 150 mg per day. Higher doses may be neurotoxic. [ 3,4] Although vitamin E capsules are often used orally to ... and the clinical trials show few side effects. [ 3,4] St. John’s wort has been evaluated in 23 randomized ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Christopher R. Honey, MD, DPhil, FRCS
May 2001
... reduced in 78% of PD patients following pallidoansotomy. [4] Reports of reduced tremor and improved rigidity after ...
Clinical Articles
September 2001
... 3 ] the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,[ 4 ] and the Canadian Medical Association[ 5 ] for ...
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. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Barry Rich, MD
December 2001
... a high school education than for those without (13.7% vs 4.8%). [ 4] In 1995 a survey of vasectomy providers was conducted ... per year. With exemplary use the rate drops to about 4%, but exemplary use is rare. Water-based lubricants should ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Dr Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC
July / August 2001
... misrepresented, and some contain false claims. In the past 4 years, there has been an approximately 200% increase in ... Rawlins MD. Doctors and the drug makers. Lancet 4 August 1984;2:(8397):276-278. [PubMed Citation] Royal ... and the pharmaceutical industry. Bioethics Bull 1995;4-5:1331-1334. Wazana A. Physicians and the pharmaceutical ...