* Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Dr. Irina Trofimova, Collective Intelligence Laboratory, McMaster University, 92 Bowman St., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 2T6, Canada. Emails: [email protected]; sulisw@mcmaster. ca Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge the hard work of our student Ms. Jennifer Bossio in organization of participants and administration of t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the usefulness for surveillance of the peer-reviewed literature on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean published from 2001 to 2010 with a previous study of the published literature from 1962 to 2000. METHODS A bibliographic search was conducted of publications from 2001 to 2010 that examined the prevalence of hypertension using MEDLINE and LI...

BACKGROUND Soil-transmitted helminths, such as Trichuris trichiura, are of major concern in public health. Current efforts to control these helminth infections involve periodic mass treatment in endemic areas. Since these large-scale interventions are likely to intensify, monitoring the drug efficacy will become indispensible. However, studies comparing detection techniques based on sensitivity...

CONTEXT The long-term effect of policies restricting contact between residents and pharmaceutical company representatives (PCRs) during internal medicine training is unknown. The McMaster University Department of Medicine in Hamilton, Ontario, implemented a policy restricting PCR contact with trainees in 1992, whereas the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, ha...

*Correspondence: 9 Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Health Sciences Centre, Room 10 4H24, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N3Z5, 11 Canada. Phone: 1-905-525-9140 Ext 22703 Fax: 1-905-522-9033. 12 e-mail: [email protected] 13 14 Running Title: DegP: A Structure Driven Functional Model 15