© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors T his year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication in CMAJ of the discovery of insulin by Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto. Some interesting historical parallels have emerged with the success of islet replacement therapy in diabetes. Up until just a few weeks ago, human islet cells were being prepared in...

In a paper read before The National Association for the Study of Epilepsy Dr. Ernest Jones says (1) : " The customary concentration of attention on the more sensational aspects of epilepsy, namely, the fits, has, by furnishing a narrow conception of it, done much to retard our knowledge of the disease as a whole." Dr. Jones goes on to point out how a study of the physical and mental characteris...

The objective of this study was to determine the true digestible P requirement of 40- to 60-kg (Exp. 1) and 60- to 80-kg (Exp. 2) pigs by broken-line analysis of growth performance data using 6 levels of true digestible P. In each 3-wk experiment, 108 barrows and gilts were used, and 6 levels of monocalcium phosphate were added to a corn-soybean meal-based diet to establish 6 graded levels of t...