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Groves to blood Stanaway at Gulf 12 Hours

Richie Stanaway will make an early competitive debut for Grove Racing. Image: Supplied Richie Stanaway will undertake his first competitive outing with Grove Racing before the year is out, in next month’s Gulf 12 Hours. The New Zealander will share a Porsche 911 GT3 R with Stephen and Brenton Grove in the once-around-the-clock race at […]

B.C. dog owner sounds alarm on infectious bacteria disease

One day, Choco was an excitable, vibrant five-year-old dog, and the next he was barely moving at the vet clinic. “He was feverish. He was shivering. He was lethargic,” said Natasha Richards, Choco’s owner. “He threw up 10 times within 24-hours , uncontrollably. It was the worst thing. I couldn’t do anything for him. I […]

Jonah Goodman · A National Evil

As​ far as the archivist knew, the 48 box files locked in an attic above the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern had never been opened. They contained a mass of handwritten letters, glass-plate negatives, annotated offprints, minutes of meetings, and piles of press clippings almost too fragile to touch. […]

Supporting the Family After the Death of a Child or Adolescent

Whether death occurs in the context of a chronic illness or as the sudden loss of a previously healthy infant, child, or adolescent, the death of a child is a highly stressful and traumatic event. Psychosocial support for families after the death of a child embodies core medical values of professional fidelity, compassion, respect for […]

Re: Estimating the Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction of a Quality Improvement Initiative in Primary Care: Findings from EvidenceNOW

To the Editor: The recent article by Lindner et al concluded, “This [cardiovascular disease] risk reduction would … avoid $150 million in 90-day direct costs.”1 It was grossly irresponsible of the authors to write this and for the editors to publish this. This medical economic calculation did not apply the methodologies for cost-effectiveness evaluation and […]