Tools go back in time

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

Time to Go Back to the Original Name

Almost 40 years ago, the first pathogenic human retrovirus was discovered and shown to cause a T-cell leukemia in humans (Poiesz et al., 1980a, 1981). Thus, a new paradigm was established showing that a virus can directly cause cancer in humans. At that time, the only other suspected case was the connection between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Burkitt’s Lymphoma and later nasopharyngeal car...

Is it "time to go back to school"?

Suboptimal treatment in chronic diseases--time to go back to basics.

185 As Malaysia progresses from a developing to a newly developed nation status by 2020 one thing is almost certain to happen; diseases associated with aging and urbanised lifestyle will be on the rise. The recently published Third National Health and Morbidity Survey of 2006 (NHMS 3) concurred with this gloom prediction; almost all risk factors which contributes to the most common chronic dise...

Data Warehouse Back-End Tools

The back-end tools of a data warehouse are pieces of software responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization, and insertion into a data warehouse. They are known under the general term extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tools. In all the phases of an ETL process (extraction and exportation, transformation and cleaning, and loading), individ...