Background: Traditional public health surveillance provides accurate information but is typically not timely. New early warning systems leveraging timely electronic data are emerging, but the public health value of such systems is still largely unknown. Objective: To assess the timeliness and accuracy of pharmacy sales data for both respiratory and gastrointestinal infections and to determine i...

BACKGROUND Although many patients with cancer would prefer to die at home, most die in hospital. We carried out a study to describe the yearly trends in the place of death between 1992 and 1997 and to determine predictors of out-of-hospital death for adults with cancer in Nova Scotia. METHODS In this population-based study, we linked administrative health data from 2 databases - the Nova Scot...

BACKGROUND Oral anticoagulation is an effective therapy for the prevention of cardioembolic complications in patients with atrial fibrillation. However, previous practice reviews have indicated that oral anticoagulants are often underused in this setting. Most of those reports have focused on reviews of hospitalized and institutionalized patients, or small geographical areas. OBJECTIVES To de...

Zhongping Lee,* Jianwei Wei, Ken Voss, Marlon Lewis, Annick Bricaud, and Yannick Huot School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7093...

Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, College of Physical and Environmental Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans of Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Oceanography Department, Naval Postgraduate Schoo...

A Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia B Atlantic Centre for Green Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada C Department of Surfactant Technology, IQAC-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Spain D Corresponding authors: E-mail: [email protected] or pe...

2 Infant, Child, Adolescent Psychiatrist, IWK Health Centre; Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; member joint advocacy committee Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Canadian Pediatric Association; conference organizing committee, Infant Mental Health Prevention and Promotion (IMPH); Co-chair, Infant Mental Health Interest group Canadian Academy of C...

Lenses, fibrations and universal translations† MICHAEL JOHNSON‡, ROBERT ROSEBRUGH§ and R. J. WOOD¶ ‡School of Mathematics and Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Email: [email protected] §Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Email: [email protected] ¶Department of Mathematics and Statis...

Reader in Applied Philosophy, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Assista...