Dr Ponka is an Assistant Professor and Dr Kirlew is a second-year resident in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. Correspondence to: Dr David Ponka, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa; e-mail [email protected] For a pdf of the Top Ten Differential Diagnoses in Family Medicine pamphlet or to access the slide show on-line...

Ague; or, Intermittent Fever" By M. D. O'Connell, M.D., M.Ch., L.M., SurgeonMaj or, Medical Staff. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1885. This pamphlet is divided into two parts, in the first of which the author treats of the distinction between Ague and Remittent Fever, whilst, in the second, following Moore and Oldham, he endeavours to prove that Ague, as distinguished from Remittent Fever, is...

In his resignation statement, printed last Tuesday night, in a pamphlet issued by Ken Carpenter and him, Hancock said that he was resigning, "primarily because of poor grades, but at least partly because I don't feel I can fulfill the goal that 'Vitis' must follow to be worth the time spent on it: the goal of a total examination and questioning of given conditions and structures of the college ...

1959 Dr Ponka is an Assistant Professor and Dr Kirlew is a second-year resident in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. Correspondence to: Dr David Ponka, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa; e-mail [email protected] For a pdf of the Top Ten Differential Diagnoses in Family Medicine pamphlet or to access the slide show on...

BACKGROUND In many countries, private general practitioners are the first contact in health services for people with symptoms of tuberculosis. Targeting the private sector has been recommended in previous studies to improve tuberculosis control. A brief face-to-face intervention using Catharsis Education Action (CEA) method, repeated at periodic intervals, seems to change physicians' attitudes,...

A model for the dissemination of information on visceral leishmaniasis from schoolchildren to their families was evaluated in two schools in Caeté, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Age ranged from 9 to 17 years in the two schools, one receiving the intervention (with 92 students) and the other serving as the control (96 students). All the students attended a class and received a pamphlet on visceral...