The quantitative assessment of parasite infection is necessary to measure, manage and reduce infection risk in both wild and captive animal populations. Traditional faecal flotation methods which aim to quantify parasite burden, such as the McMaster egg counting technique, are widely used in veterinary medicine, agricultural management and wildlife parasitology. Although many modifications to t...

Equity in health care has become a focal point of debate. However, the disparity between insurance payer types in total joint arthroplasty is poorly defined. The authors identified 1312 consecutive patients who underwent elective primary total hip or knee arthroplasty with available preoperative Short Form 36 and Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index surveys and stratifie...

'White bile' is a clear, colourless, watery fluid found occasionally in the biliary tree proximal to an extrahepatic biliary obstruction. Thus it is neither white nor bilious; and it is not viscid and opaque like the fluid found in the obstructed gall bladder. With the exception of the paper by Judd and Lyons (1923) previous reports on white bile dealt either with a single patient (Edington and...

At present globally there are rare examples of chiropractic training in publicly funded universities.1 The absence of a university-style research tradition, coupled with a lack of access to government funding has acted as a barrier to the scientifi c development of the chiropractic profession.2 Within chiropractic educational facilities there are no formal programs cultivating chiropractic clin...

Professor Chris Wood stands alone as the world's preeminent researcher and authority in the broad field of comparative physiology and biochemistry. His scientific achievements are awe-inspiring – Chris has published over 600 papers (and counting) and has been cited a staggering 20,000 times! For 40 years, Chris has shaped the global evolution of fish physiology research, beginning with his eleg...

The Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, consists of Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas at the Toronto site (see profile in CJNL Volume 21 Number 1) and Dr. Andrea Baumann at the McMaster site. The NHSRU has a multidisciplinary team of 46 co-investigators and more than 50 researchers representing nursing, bus...