A Survey of Prelicensure Pain Curricula in Health Science Faculties in Canadian Universities by Judy Watt-Watson, M McGillion, J Hunter, M Choiniere, AJ Clark, A Dewar, C Johnston, M Lynch, P Morley-Forster, D Moulin, N Thie, CL von Baeyer, K Webber

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What Is New Since the Last (1999) Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines? by Louis-Philippe Boulet, Tony R Bai, Allan Becker, Denis Bérubé, Robert Beveridge, Dennis M Bowie, Kenneth R Chapman, Johanne Côté, Donald Cockcroft, Francine M Ducharme, Pierre Ernst, J Mark FitzGerald, Thomas Kovesi, Richard V Hodder, Paul O’Byrne, Brian Rowe, Malcolm R Sears, F Estelle R Simons, Sheldon Spier

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A Canadian Working Group Report on Fecal Microbial Therapy: Microbial Ecosystems Therapeutics by Emma Allen-Vercoe, Gregor Reid, Norman Viner, Gregory B Gloor, Susy Hota, Peter Kim, Christine Lee, Kieran C O’Doherty, Stephen J Vanner, J Scott Weese, Elaine O Petrof

“…A working group from across Canada comprised of clinician and basic scientists, epidemiologists, ethicists, Health Canada regulatory authorities and representatives of major funding agencies (Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada) met to review the current experience with fecal microbial therapy and to identify the key areas of study required to move this field forward. …”
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Comparative analysis of mesozooplankton size fraction structure in bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canadian coastal regions by Ruben D. Cordero, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Ramón Filgueira, Julie Arseneau, Jeffrey Barrell, Timothy J. Barrett, Christopher W. McKindsey, Daria Gallardi, Olivia Gibb, Terri Sutherland, Thomas Guyondet

“…This study examines the spatio-temporal variation in mesozooplankton size structure across nine bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canada from 2020 to 2022. Using high-resolution imaging (FlowCam®) to measure individual zooplankton, we assessed the effects of location, tide, sampling day, season, and aquaculture pressure on the size distribution variation among and within bays. …”
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A Descriptive Study of Human Salmonella Serotype Typhimurium Infections Reported in Ontario from 1990 to 1997 by Michael W Ford, Agricola Odoi, Shannon E Majowicz, Pascal Michel, Dean Middleton, Bruce Ciebin, Kathryn Doré, Scott A McEwen, Jeffery A Aramini, Shelley Deeks, Frances Jamieson, Rafiq Ahmed, Frank G Rodgers, Jeff B Wilson

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Evaluating the quality of care for heart failure hospitalizations in inflammatory arthritis – A population-based cohort study by Bindee Kuriya, Lihi Eder, Sahil Koppikar, Jessica Widdifield, Anna Chu, Jiming Fang, Irene Jeong, Douglas Lee, Jacob Udell

“…Methods: This population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada, included patients who experienced their first HF hospitalization and survived to discharge. …”
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A Nosocomial Outbreak of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Healthy Newborns and Postpartum Mothers by Andrea Saunders, Linda Panaro, Allison McGeer, Alana Rosenthal, Diane White, Barbara M Willey, Denise Gravel, Erika Bontovics, Barbara Yaffe, Kevin Katz

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Marked Disparity in the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis among Aboriginal Peoples on the Canadian Prairies: the Challenges and Opportunities by Richard Long, Vernon Hoeppner, Pamela Orr, Martha Ainslie, Malcolm King, Sylvia Abonyi, Maria Mayan, Dennis Kunimoto, Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Courtney Heffernan, Angela Lau, Dick Menzies

“…BACKGROUND: While it is established that Aboriginal peoples in the prairie provinces of Canada are disproportionately affected by tuberculosis (TB), little is known about the epidemiology of TB either within or across provincial borders.…”
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Canadian Hepatitis C Look-Back Investigation to Detect Transmission from an Infected General Surgeon by Meenakshi Dawar, Tammy L Stuart, Lamont E Sweet, Anne M Neatby, Lewis P Abbott, Anton P Andonov, Tom Wong, Robert Gervais, Rob Stirling

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Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network National Syphilis Laboratory Testing Recommendations: Introduction by Members of the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network Syphilis Laboratory Task Group during Authorship (co-chairs and membership in alphabetical order), Raymond SW Tsang, Muhammad Morshed, Vanessa Allen, Max A Chernesky, Kevin Fonseca, Richard Garceau, Gayatri C Jayaraman, Kamran Kadkhoda, Bonita E Lee, Paul N Levett, Sandra M Radons, Bouchra Serhir, Ameeta E Singh, Tom Wong

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Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion among Hiv-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men with No History of Injection Drug Use: Results from a Clinical Hiv Cohort by Ann N Burchell, Sandra L Gardner, Tony Mazzulli, Michael Manno, Janet Raboud, Vanessa G Allen, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Rupert Kaul, Frank McGee, Peggy Millson, Robert S Remis, Wendy Wobeser, Curtis Cooper, Sean B Rourke

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Understanding social behaviours across neurodiverse young people: roles of social cognition and self-regulation by Iciar Iturmendi-Sabater, Evdokia Anagnostou, Marc A. Fournier, Jennifer Crosbie, Russell Schachar, Robert Nicolson, Stelios Georgiadis, Elizabeth Kelley, Jessica Jones, Jessica Brian, Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Meng-Chuan Lai

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A Case-Control Study of the Role of Cold Symptoms and other Historical Triggering Factors in Asthma Exacerbations by Susan M Tarlo, Irvin Broder, Paul Corey, Moira Chan-Yeung, Alexander Ferguson, Allan Becker, Peter Warren, F Estelle R Simons, Christopher Sherlock, Marilyn Okada, Jure Manfreda

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Usefulness of Previous Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening Results in Guiding Empirical Therapy for S Aureus Bacteremia by Anthony D Bai, Lisa Burry, Adrienne Showler, Marilyn Steinberg, Daniel Ricciuto, Tania Fernandes, Anna Chiu, Sumit Raybardhan, George A Tomlinson, Chaim M Bell, Andrew M Morris

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A Canadian Multicentre Case-Control Study of Sporadic Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Infection by Donna Holton, Jeff Wilson, Andrea Ellis, David Haldane, Nicole April, Karen Grimsrud, Brent Friesen, John Spika

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Missed Opportunities for Prevention of Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis B: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Julie van Schalkwyk, Melica Nourmoussavi, Andrea Massey, Reka Gustafson, Elizabeth Brodkin, Martin Petric, Mel Krajden, Simon Dobson, Jane Buxton, Mark Bigham, Neora Pick, Richard Schreiber, Christopher H Sherlock, Deborah Money, Eric M Yoshida

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Managing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline by Darcy D Marciniuk, Donna Goodridge, Paul Hernandez, Graeme Rocker, Meyer Balter, Pat Bailey, Gordon Ford, Jean Bourbeau, Denis E O’Donnell, Francois Maltais, Richard A Mularski, Andrew J Cave, Irvin Mayers, Vicki Kennedy, Thomas K Oliver, Candice Brown, Canadian Thoracic Society COPD Committee Dyspnea Expert Working Group

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Canadian Thoracic Society Recommendations for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – 2007 Update by Denis E O’Donnell, Shawn Aaron, Jean Bourbeau, Paul Hernandez, Darcy D Marciniuk, Meyer Balter, Gordon Ford, Andre Gervais, Roger Goldstein, Rick Hodder, Alan Kaplan, Sean Keenan, Yves Lacasse, Francois Maltais, Jeremy Road, Graeme Rocker, Don Sin, Tasmin Sinuff, Nha Voduc

“…Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major respiratory illness in Canada that is both preventable and treatable. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of this complex condition continues to grow and our ability to offer effective treatment to those who suffer from it has improved considerably. …”
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Low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (LOW-TMP): protocol for a phase III randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-comparison tri... by Andrea Benedetti, Cecilia T Costiniuk, Kosar Khwaja, Andrew Johnson, Barret Rush, Darrell Tan, Ranjani Somayaji, Salman Qureshi, Michaeline McGuinty, Nicole Ezer, Sara Belga, Emily G. McDonald, Zahra N. Sohani, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Andrew Aw, Alex Carignan, Matthew P. Cheng, Bryan Coburn, Dan Gregson, Alexander Lawandi, Victor Leung, Sylvain Lother, Derek MacFadden, Leighanne Parkes, Valerie Roy, Ilan Schwartz, Miranda So, Emilie Trinh, Todd C. Lee

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Canadian Thoracic Society Guidelines for Occupational Asthma by Susan M Tarlo, Louis-Philippe Boulet, André Cartier, Donald Cockcroft, Johanne Côtè, Frederick E Hargreave, Linn Holness, Gary Liss, Jean-Luc Malo, Moira Chan-Yeung

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