1.
Should North America's first and only supervised injection facility (InSite) be expanded in British Columbia, Canada?
Ehsan
EJ
Jozaghi,
Martin
MA
Andresen
Harm Reduction Journal 2013, 10 :1 (16 February 2013)
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2.
Reductions in non-medical prescription opioid use among adults in Ontario, Canada: are recent policy interventions working?
Benedikt
Fischer,
Anca
Ialomiteanu,
Paul
Kurdyak,
Robert
E
Mann,
Jürgen
Rehm
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013, 8 :7 (14 February 2013)
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3.
Plants used in artisanal fisheries on the Western Mediterranean coasts of Italy
Valentina
Savo,
Arianna
La Rocca,
Giulia
Caneva,
Fabio
Rapallo,
Laura
Cornara
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013, 9 :9 (28 January 2013)
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4.
Differences in perceptions and fast food eating behaviours between Indians living in high- and low-income neighbourhoods of Chandigarh, India
Christopher Robert
Aloia,
Danijela
Gasevic,
Salim
Yusuf,
Koon
Teo,
Arun
Chockalingam,
Binod Kumar
Patro,
Rajesh
Kumar,
Scott Alexander
Lear
Nutrition Journal 2013, 12 :4 (7 January 2013)
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5.
The perspectives of educators, regulators and funders of massage therapy on the state of the profession in British Columbia, Canada
Farah
M
Shroff,
Inderjeet
S
Sahota
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2013, 21 :2 (7 January 2013)
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6.
Attenuation of multiple Nef functions in HIV-1 elite controllers
Philip
Mwimanzi,
Tristan
J
Markle,
Eric
Martin,
Yoko
Ogata,
Xiaomei
T
Kuang,
Michiyo
Tokunaga,
Macdonald
Mahiti,
Florencia
Pereyra,
Toshiyuki
Miura,
Bruce
D
Walker,
Zabrina
L
Brumme,
Mark
A
Brockman,
Takamasa
Ueno
Retrovirology 2013, 10 :1 (7 January 2013)
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Editor’s summary
The findings in this study indicate that decreased HIV-1 Nef function, due in part to host immune selection pressures, may be a hallmark of the elite controller phenotype.
7.
Understanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados: a prospective, qualitative study of stakeholder perceptions
Jeremy
Snyder,
Valorie
A
Crooks,
Leigh
Turner,
Rory
Johnston
International Journal for Equity in Health 2013, 12 :2 (5 January 2013)
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8.
Assessing the prevalence of non-medical prescription opioid use in the Canadian general adult population: evidence of large variation depending on survey questions used
Kevin
D
Shield,
Anca
Ialomiteanu,
Benedikt
Fischer,
Jürgen
Rehm
BMC Psychiatry 2013, 13 :6 (4 January 2013)
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9.
Psychometric properties of responses by clinicians and older adults to a 6-item Hebrew version of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D6 )
Yaacov
G
Bachner,
Norm
O’Rourke,
Margalit
Goldfracht,
Per
Bech,
Liat
Ayalon
BMC Psychiatry 2013, 13 :2 (3 January 2013)
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10.
In search of attachment: a qualitative study of chronically ill women transitioning between family physicians in rural Ontario, Canada
Ellen
Randall,
Valorie
A
Crooks,
Laurie
J
Goldsmith
BMC Family Practice 2012, 13 :125 (23 December 2012)
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11.
An agent-based model and computational framework for counter-terrorism and public safety based on swarm intelligencea
Andrew
J
Park,
Herbert
H
Tsang,
Mengting
Sun,
Uwe
Glasser
Security Informatics 2012, 1 :23 (23 December 2012)
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12.
Linearization of ancestral multichromosomal genomes
Ján
Maňuch,
Murray
Patterson,
Roland
Wittler,
Cedric
Chauve,
Eric
Tannier
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 (Suppl 19):S11 (19 December 2012)
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13.
Derivation of HLA types from shotgun sequence datasets
René
L
Warren,
Gina
Choe,
Douglas
J
Freeman,
Mauro
Castellarin,
Sarah
Munro,
Richard
Moore,
Robert
A
Holt
Genome Medicine 2012, 4 :95 (10 December 2012)
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Editor’s summary
HLAminer is a computational tool to identify Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) alleles directly from sequence reads, reducing the need for targeted amplification of HLA-specific gene segments.
14.
A computational pipeline for the development of multi-marker bio-signature panels and ensemble classifiers
Oliver
P
Günther,
Virginia
Chen,
Gabriela Cohen
Freue,
Robert
F
Balshaw,
Scott
J
Tebbutt,
Zsuzsanna
Hollander,
Mandeep
Takhar,
W Robert
McMaster,
Bruce
M
McManus,
Paul
A
Keown,
Raymond
T
Ng
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :326 (8 December 2012)
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15.
Where are the NGOs and why? The distribution of health and development NGOs in Bolivia
Lindsay
P
Galway,
Kitty
K
Corbett,
Leilei
Zeng
Globalization and Health 2012, 8 :38 (23 November 2012)
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16.
Use of medical tourism for hip and knee surgery in osteoarthritis: a qualitative examination of distinctive attitudinal characteristics among Canadian patients
Valorie
A
Crooks,
Keri
Cameron,
Vera
Chouinard,
Rory
Johnston,
Jeremy
Snyder,
Victoria
Casey
BMC Health Services Research 2012, 12 :417 (21 November 2012)
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17.
A picture tells a thousand words: transmission electron microscopy of the ciliary transition zone in C. elegans
R
Bowie,
K
Kida,
M
Leroux,
O
Blacque
Cilia 2012, 1 (Suppl 1):P18 (16 November 2012)
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Outcome of diagnostic intervention predicts health-related quality of life scores among children with food allergy
Linda
Kirste,
Tim
K
Takaro,
Boris
Kuzeljevic,
Tiffany
Wong,
Edmond
S
Chan
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2012, 8 (Suppl 1):A9 (2 November 2012)
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CooVar: Co-occurring variant analyzer
Ismael
A
Vergara,
Christian
Frech,
Nansheng
Chen
BMC Research Notes 2012, 5 :615 (1 November 2012)
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20.
Critically examining diversity in end-of-life family caregiving: implications for equitable caregiver support and Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
Melissa
Giesbrecht,
Valorie
A
Crooks,
Allison
Williams,
Olena
Hankivsky
International Journal for Equity in Health 2012, 11 :65 (1 November 2012)
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21.
Closing the health equity gap: evidence-based strategies for primary health care organizations
Annette
J
Browne,
Colleen
M
Varcoe,
Sabrina
T
Wong,
Victoria
L
Smye,
Josée
Lavoie,
Doreen
Littlejohn,
David
Tu,
Olive
Godwin,
Murry
Krause,
Koushambhi
B
Khan,
Alycia
Fridkin,
Patricia
Rodney,
John
O’Neil,
Scott
Lennox
International Journal for Equity in Health 2012, 11 :59 (13 October 2012)
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22.
Social interactions of eating behaviour among High
School students: a cellular automata approach
Vahid
Dabbaghian,
Vijay
K
Mago,
Tiankuang
Wu,
Charles
Fritz,
Azadeh
Alimadad
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12 :155 (9 October 2012)
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23.
Epigenetic interplay between mouse endogenous retroviruses and host genes
Rita
Rebollo,
Katharine
Miceli-Royer,
Ying
Zhang,
Sharareh
Farivar,
Liane
Gagnier,
Dixie
L
Mager
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R89 (3 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Genes proximal to mouse endogenous retroviral elements defend against the invasion of silencing methylation using both buffer regions and euchromatin propagation
24.
Poor methodological reporting in lupus clinical trials found in Cochrane reviews
CH
Goldsmith
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2012, 14 (Suppl 3):A54 (27 September 2012)
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Smelt was the likely beneficiary of an antifreeze gene laterally transferred between fishes
Laurie
A
Graham,
Jieying
Li,
William
S
Davidson,
Peter
L
Davies
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12 :190 (25 September 2012)
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