Philip H. Bethune

Betty Philip

The colon is a site where both local and systemic delivery of drugs can take place. Local delivery allows topical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. However, treatment can be made effective if the drugs can be targeted directly into the colon, thereby reducing the systemic side effects. This review, mainly compares the primary approaches for CDDS (Colon Specific Drug Delivery) namely prod...

Philip Benfey

In a recent review, Gurr and colleagues have surveyed the threats from emerging and spreading fungal diseases both to crops and to wildlife (Nature (2012) 484, 186–194). While it is common that pathogenic viruses or bacteria and their hosts co-evolve in ways that enable the survival and relatively peaceful co-existence of both — as for instance with the zoonoses that became ‘childhood diseases’...

Henry Norman Bethune (1890-1939): Surgeon, communist, humanitarian.

Henry Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, on 3 March 1890. His father was a Presbyterian minister from a long family line of clergymen, educators and medical practitioners, while his mother was an evangelical missionary. The family badge of service and his father’s exhortation to “always go where you’re needed ” left an indelible mark on young Bethune, influencing his event...

Norman Bethune: Gifted Surgeon and a Strange Idealist.

8th Annual Bethune Round Table Conference on International Surgery

© 2008 Association médicale canadienne IMPACT ANALYSIS OF UGANDA HEARING PROJECT. R. Byaruhanga,* M. Awubwa,* B. Westerberg,† N. Shoman,† T. Rolland,‡ J.-P. Vaccani.§ From the *Department of ENT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Departments of Otolaryngology, †University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, ‡NYU School of Medicine, New York City, NY, and §University of Ottawa, Ottaw...