With the awards season in full swing, it is important to remember that the goal of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) National Awards Program is to improve patient outcomes by promoting excellence in the practice of pharmacy throughout hospitals and other collaborative health care settings. During the Professional Practice Conference in Toronto, outstanding individual practitio...

such as pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) and human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) is a well-established practical technique. The purpose of this technique is to achieve enhanced commercial production of genetically meritorious individuals in the livestock industry, to retrieve a number of oocytes and early embryos in various research fields including genetic engineering, and to treat medi...

Serum transminases and phosphatases were assayed in fertile and infertile cattle and buffalo bulls. Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) did not differ significantly in relation to fertility and species. Serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT) was higher in infertile than fertile bulls in both the species. The values were higher in cattle than buffalo bulls. The differences wer...

Antitrust law condemns price-fixing cartels and seeks to encourage private suits against the conspirators by automatically trebling antitrust damages and by providing for joint and several liability. Because the Supreme Court has held that there is no right to contribution among antitrust violators, this creates the risk of a single defendant being saddled with damages significantly greater tha...

Ç THIS past year saw a record number of papers submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Haptics with over 160 submissions, reflecting the very healthy state of haptics and haptic technology. This increase can be attributed in part to our two timely special issues, Active Touch Sensing in Robots, Humans and other Animals and Haptics in Neuroscience. In addition, we have been working on strategies t...

Letter by Rutten-Jacobs and de Leeuw Regarding Article, “Long-Term Mortality After First-Ever and Recurrent Stroke in Young Adults” To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Aarnio et al on long-term mortality after young stroke. The authors studied longterm mortality after young stroke and compared mortality in the young stroke population with that in the general populat...

In partnership with other public and private funders of biomedical research, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has pursued its mission to provide global leadership in research that advances the prevention, treatment, and control of hypertension over the last half century. Since its founding in 1948, NHLBI has fostered investigatorand institute-initiated research in hypertens...

W ith the February 2013 issue, the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) begins its second year. JAHA was created as a forum for high-quality cardiovascular and cerebrovascular science and to particularly represent the domains of the 16 Scientific Councils of the American Heart Association (AHA). As an open access journal, JAHA was designed to provide readers with immediate subscript...

University in Kingston, in an expanding career Dr. Stuart Vandewater made innumerable contributions to Canadian anesthesia and to administrative and organizational aspects of Canadian medicine. His career shows how an anesthesiologist can influence activities that are far removed from the operating room. Born in Campbellford, Ontario, on November 16, 1924, Dr. Vandewater and his wife Mary (nee ...

The Islamic moral code originates from two primary sources: the Quran and the Sunnah (Rady and Verheijde 2014a). Regardless of time and place, this code provides practical and comprehensive guidance on behavioral aspects in health and illness. In Western principlism-based bioethics, medical futility justifies withholding and withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment (LST) based on a subjective d...