Proceedings of the Stated Meeting held Wednesday, May 21, 1924

Wednesday 2 May 2007

Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Abstracts from the meeting held in Toronto, September 21–23, 2014

Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (TVN) was funded in July 2012 under the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, to develop, rigorously evaluate , and ethically disseminate information about the use of technologies for the care of seriously ill elderly patients and their families. TVN's vision is to position Canada as a global leader in providing the highest qualit...

Diverticulitis of the Pelvic Colon 1A Paper read at a Meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association on Wednesday, February 27th, 1924.

in the colon and the evil results that ensue. In this direction Sir Arbuthnot Lane has done much to stimulate interest, to excite admiration, and indeed to inspire awe into the hearts of not a few of us.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Problems in Tropical America *Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Problems in Tropical America, held at Kingston, Jamaica, 1924. Published by the United Fruit Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1924, pp. 1010.

Many of the larger industrial concerns in world industry have learnt the lesson that " health is wealth," and pioneer among them in the tropics, perhaps, stands the United Fruit Company with its splendid and beneficial record of public health work in tropical America. The conference at Kingston, Jamaica, from July 22nd to August 1st, 1924, was held at the instance of the company and was attende...

Summary of the proceedings of the First International Workshop on CADASIL. Paris, May 19-21, 1993.

T he acronym CADASIL for "cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy" 1 was recently suggested for the disease formerly called "hereditary multi-infarct dementia" by Sourander in 1977. 2 This condition is characterized clinically by recurrent subcortical isch-emic strokes starting in mid-adulthood and sometimes leading to pseudobulbar palsy and de...