more catalogues than it was considered possible to list). Entries in the main section of the book are organized by manufacturer's name. In some but not all cases dates of foundation or incorporation and known addresses are provided, as well as bibliographical details of literature produced. A subsidiary listing of the libraries and collections consulted gives the names of manufacturers whose pu...

© 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...

The paper is concentrated on Professor Miloš Ráb and his contribution to the theory of oscillatory properties of solutions of second and third order linear differential equations, the theory of differential equations with complex coefficients and dynamical systems, and the theory of nonlinear second order differential equations. At the beginning, we take a brief look at the most important momen...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively analyze the clinical symptoms, laboratory findings, and outcomes in patients with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) who were enrolled in various clinical trials conducted by the French Vasculitis Study Group. METHODS A cohort of 85 patients meeting the Chapel Hill criteria for MPA participated in the study. Seventy-one of them were included in prospective therapeutic...