Department of Medicine Publications
As the largest department within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department of Medicine hosts a vast range of research in its divisions. Research areas include cardiology, clinical immunology and allergy, clinical pharmacology, dermatology, critical care and emergency medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, gastroenterology, hematology, molecular toxicology, nephrology, respirology, and rheumatology.
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Submissions from 2004
Waiver of Consent for Emergency Research, Andrew D. McRae and Charles Weijer
Tensions in the Field: Teaching Standards of Practice in Optometry Case Presentations, Marlee M. Spafford, Lorelei Lingard, Catherine F. Schryer, and Patricia K. Hrynchak
Preventing dementia by treating hypertension and preventing stroke, J. David Spence
Ultrasound measurement of atherosclerosis., J. David Spence
Noninvasive phenotypes of atherosclerosis., J. David Spence and Robert A. Hegele
Noninvasive Phenotypes of Atherosclerosis: Similar Windows but Different Views, J. David Spence and Robert A. Hegele
Prospective Evaluation of the Role of Quantitative Doppler Ultrasound Surveillance in Liver Transplantation, David Stell, Donal Downey, Paul Marotta, Edward Solano, Anand Khakhar, Douglas Quan, Cam Ghent, Vivian McAlister, and William Wall
Lowering Homocysteine in Patients with Ischemic Stroke to Prevent Recurrent Stroke, Myocardial Infarction, and Death: The Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) Randomized Controlled Trial, James F. Toole, M. René Malinow, Lloyd E. Chambless, J. David Spence, L. Creed Pettigrew, Virginia J. Howard, Elizabeth G. Sides, Chin Hua Wang, and Meir Stampfer
Heads or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer
The Ethical Analysis of Risk in Intensive Care Unit Research, Charles Weijer
The Quest for Legitimacy: Comment on Cox Macpherson's 'to Strengthen Consensus, Consult the Stakeholders', Charles Weijer
When Are Research Risks Reasonable in Relation to Anticipated Benefits?, Charles Weijer and Paul B. Miller
Protecting Communities in Pharmacogenetic and Pharmacogenomic Research, Charles Weijer and P. B. Miller
Lck is Required for Activation-induced T Cell Death after TCR Ligation with Partial Agonists, Xue-Zhong Yu, Steven D. Levin, Joaquin Madrenas, and Claudio Anasetti
Submissions from 2003
Regulation of T-cell Activation by Phosphodiesterase 4B2 Requires its Dynamic Redistribution during Immunological Synapse Formation, Jacqueline Arp, Mark G. Kirchhof, Miren L. Baroja, Steven H. Nazarian, Thu A. Chau, Craig A. Strathdee, Eric H. Ball, and Joaquín Madrenas
Technical Skills in Paediatrics: A Qualitative Study of Acquisition, Attitudes and Assumptions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Susan L. Bannister, Robert I. Hilliard, Glenn Regehr, and Lorelei Lingard
Viewpoint: Therapeutic Implications of CTLA-4 Compartmentalization, Miren L. Baroja and Joaquín Madrenas
Ethics, Antiretrovirals and Prevention Trials, Emily Bass
Motor Vehicle Accidents: The Most Common Cause of Traumatic Vertebrobasilar Ischemia, Michel Beaudry and J. David Spence
Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Improved Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes, Margaret T. Behme, John Dupré, and Thomas J. McDonald
Is the Use of Placebo Controls Ethically Permissible in Clinical Trials of Agents Intended to Reduce Fractures in Osteoporosis?, Baruch A. Brody, Nancy Dickey, Susan S. Ellenberg, Robert P. Heaney, Robert J. Levine, Richard L. O'Brien, Ruth B. Purtilo, and Charles Weijer
Offering to Return Results to Research Participants: Attitudes and Needs of Principal Investigators in the Children's Oncology Group, Conrad V. Fernandez, Eric Kodish, Susan Shurin, and Charles Weijer
Disclosure of the Right of Research Participants to Receive Research Results: An Analysis of Consent Forms in the Children's Oncology Group, Conrad V. Fernandez, Eric Kodish, Shaureen Taweel, Susan Shurin, and Charles Weijer
Importance of Informed Consent in Offering to Return Research Results to Research Participants, Conrad V. Fernandez, Eric Kodish, and Charles Weijer
Informing Study Participants of Research Results: An Ethical Imperative, Conrad V. Fernandez, Eric Kodish, and Charles Weijer