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Nutritional rickets and severe hypocalcemia in two Canadian newcomers
No full textNutritional rickets and hypocalcemia are serious but preventable medical conditions with important and potentially long-lasting health implications. Despite well-established recommendations around dietary modification and nutritional supplementation, these diseases remain disproportionately higher among Canadian newcomers. We describe two cases of nutritional rickets and hypocalcemia in adolescent newcomers from East Africa. Both children attended a primary care clinic on arrival to Canada, but neither child was taking appropriate supplementation at the time of diagnosis. Once diagnosed, both patients responded to supplementation but, due to the severity and chronicity of their nutritional deficiencies, required additional medical testing and intervention to achieve adequate management. This case report emphasizes Canadian newcomers as an at-risk group for nutritional rickets and hypocalcemia, and underlines an urgent need for improved awareness, dietary counselling, supplementation, and access to reliable long-term prescription coverage upon arrival to Canada
Chemistry and computers – a personal recollection
No full textEmployment as a senior chemical research engineer with a US oil company led me to a two year loan assignment to its refinery in Dart-mouth, Nova Scotia, in 1967-69. During this period, I came to like living in Nova Scotia, so in January, 1970, I resigned and became a computerization advisor to then President of Saint Mary’s University (SMU), Dr. Henry Labelle, S.J. Subsequently in 1972, I was offered the position at SMU as an associate professor of physical chemistry with a particular research interest in computerization of analytical chemistry procedures
Searching for botanical knowledge: The plant hunters of the Nova Scotian Institute of (Natural) Science, 1862-1902
No full textAccepting Suzanne Zeller’s notion that maddening historical and scientific enticements are lurking in the 150 years [now 162 years] of the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, this paper examines the botanical contributions of eight prominent Institute plant hunters who published papers on their findings between 1863 (volume one) and 1902 (volume ten). Some members of this varied group of clergy, naturalists, botanists, lawyers and physicians, whose interest in nature often transcended their professional and private lives, studied plants and assembled herbaria as leisurely indulgences; others viewed the natural world through a theological lens, but many considered the accumulation of botanical knowledge an essential science. Rather than a single narrative thread, this paper intertwines a series of brief biographies of each plant hunter, followed by summaries of published reports about important botanical questions that occupied the Institute during its formative years and contextually relevant commentaries to tell the wider story of the evolving and often controversial relationship between the Institute and the role of natural history to both science and society during its first four decades