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 1999
Research Involving the Vulnerable Sick, Charles Weijer
Selecting Subjects for Participation in Clinical Research: One Sphere of Justice, Charles Weijer
The Analysis of Risks and Potential Benefits in Research, Charles Weijer
Thinking Clearly about Research Risk: Implications of the Work of Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer
We’re Alright Jack, Charles Weijer
What's the Price of a Research Subject?, Charles Weijer
Why I Am Not a Futilitarian (Review of When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility), Charles Weijer
Why Should We Include Women and Minorities in Randomized Controlled Trials?, Charles Weijer and R. A. Crouch
Protecting Communities in Research: Current Guidelines and Limits of Extrapolation, Charles Weijer, Gary Goldsand, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Submissions from 1998
The use of intraoperative nitrous oxide leads to postoperative increases in plasma homocysteine, Neal H. Badner, Keith Drader, David Freeman, and J. D. Spence
Grapefruit juice-drug interactions, David G. Bailey, J. Malcolm, O. Arnold, and J. David Spence
Dissociation of Intracellular Signaling Pathways in Response to Partial Agonist Ligands of the T Cell Receptor, Luan A. Chau, Jeffrey A. Bluestone, and Joaquin Madrenas
A Study in Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria in a Twenty-Year Sample of NSABP and POG Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, and Amina Riaz
Differential Signaling through the T Cell Receptor: From Biochemistry to Transplantation Tolerance, J. Madrenas and A. I. Lazarovits
Development of an I-Ag7-expressing Antigen-presenting Cell Line: Intrinsic Molecular Defect in Compact I-Ag7 Dimer Generation, Ali Nabavieh, Henry Chou, Irina Volokhov, James E. Lee, Lisa E. Purdy, John F. Elliott, Bhagirath Singh, and Joaquín Madrenas
D'oh! An Analysis of the Medical Care Provided to the Family of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson and Charles Weijer
Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation Pump Therapy: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction, John C. Peterson and Deborah J. Cook
T-cell Anergy and Altered T-cell Receptor Signaling: Effects on Autoimmune Disease, Konstantin V. Salojin, Jian Zhang, Joaquin Madrenas, and Terry L. Delovitch
Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, and Benjamin Freedman
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State: Futile or Acceptable?, Charles Weijer
CPR for Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State?, Charles Weijer
Society’s Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, Charles Weijer
REB Review of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer
Research Methods and Policies, Charles Weijer
Self Interest Is Not the Sole Legitimate Basis for Making Decisions, Charles Weijer