1,077 research outputs found
Housing Affordability and Safe Supply — with Jean Swanson
No full textJean Swanson has been a city councillor in Vancouver since 2018, when she was elected through COPE (The Coalition of Progressive Electors).Jean is an anti-poverty activist who has been working with Downtown Eastside organizations for almost 50 years, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2017. She is the author of the book, Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Jean recently announced her intention to run for re-election in 2022. Resources: Housing For All Of Us: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-making-home-kennedy-stewart-revisedCarnegie Action Projects: http://www.carnegieaction.org/reports/Residential Tenancy Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/lc/statreg/02078_01Vacancy Control: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-needs-vacancy-control-tenants-group-says-following-alarming-evictions-study-1.5588483CMHC: Rental Market Report: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/rental-market-reports-major-centresRenter Services Centre: https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/renter-office.aspxIan Mulgrew: B.C.\u27s chief coroner laments lack of action as opioid crisis hits worst death toll yet: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/change-bonnie-henry-to-b-c-s-chief-coronerVancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU): https://vandureplace.wordpress.com/Drug Users Liberation Front (DULF): https://www.dulf.ca/Fair Price Pharma: http://fairpricepharma.ca/Insite: https://www.phs.ca/program/insite
Verrucous Bowen's Disease of the Plantar Foot
No full textA patient is presented with a recurrent plantar tumor present for 15 years. This hyperkeratotic exophytic tumor behaved historically and appeared clinically to be a verrucous carcinoma. Biopsy revealed Bowen's disease. The tumor was successfully treated with Mohs surgery. The tumor is presented due to its unusual location and its appearance that closely resembled verrucous carcinoma. The Mohs technique allows for total tumor ablation with maximal preservation of tissue in this important functional area.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/71632/1/j.1524-4725.1984.tb01282.x.pd
Treatment of Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma and Atypical Fibrous Xanthomas with Micrographic Surgery
No full textFibrous tumors of the soft tissue are usually benign, but some fibrous neoplasms such as dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX), and malignant fibrohistiocytoma (MFH) can be very destructive locally with a high recurrence rate after local excision. On occasion, they can metastasize. Previous reports have confirmed the high success rate of Mohs micrographic surgery for the treatment of DFSP, but data have been lacking on the potential benefit of this surgical approach for MFH and AFX tumors. Over the past 6 years, we have treated 17 patients with MFH (20 tumors) and 5 patients with AFX with Mohs micrographic surgery. A retrospective analysis of the surgical results is presented. To date (average 3-year follow-up), all patients contacted are tumor free with only one recurrence; no patient has developed metastatic disease. Our results to date are very encouraging; they lend support to Mohs micrographic surgery as a desired surgical approach for these diffiult-to-cure neoplasms.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73298/1/j.1524-4725.1989.tb03149.x.pd
AmerÍcan College of Chemosurgery
No full textPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72294/1/j.1524-4725.1985.tb01296.x.pd
Treatment of Perichondritis with a Quinolone Derivative—Norfloxacin
No full textAuricular perichondritis is an uncommon complication following surgery of the external ear. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most commonly associated pathogen. Presented is a patient with auricular perichondritis successfully treated with norfloxacin, a newly available, orally administered antibiotic with antipseudomonal activity.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74571/1/j.1524-4725.1988.tb03381.x.pd
A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
No full textDrew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.
Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/books/1062/thumbnail.jp
Immunology of Injectable Collagen in Human Subjects
No full textAssociated with the use of Zyderm Collagen Implant (ZCI) for soft tissue augmentation, the rate of localized hypersensitivity reactions to the initial test injection of ZCI range from 3.0–3.5% in the literature, and subsequent reactions to treatment have reportedly ranged from 1.1–5.0%. The inflammatory symptoms to the Collagen Test Implant occur within 72 hours in 2% of those injected, indicating a preexisting sensitivity to bovine collagen in this healthy population. Most adverse treatment reactions follow the first treatment and after injection of <5 ml of collagen. Furthermore, antibodies against collagen in sera of subjects reporting localized symptoms of hypersensitivity at test or treatment sites are specific for bovine interstitial collagens and show no cross-reactivity with human collagens. Thus, immunologic reaction to ZCI results in antibovine collagen antibodies and localized inflammatory symptoms in those few subjects who experience hypersensitivity to test or treatment. Glutaraldehyde cross-linked Zyplast Implant (ZI), has demonstrated a lower incidence of hypersensitivity reactions than ZCI. In examining patients tested with ZI or treated for intradermal and subdermal indications, we have experienced only 7 hypersensitivity reactions at test sites of ZI, out of 803 tested subjects, and only 3 reactions among 498 treated patients. Therefore, ZI appears to induce a lower incidence of hypersensitivity reactions than ZCI in man.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74914/1/j.1524-4725.1988.tb04040.x.pd
Building social capital alongside a strong sense of efficacy
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of an article published in:
Swanson, P., & Osborn, T. A. (2016). Building social capital alongside a strong sense of efficacy. Foreign Language Annals, 49(2), 197-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12205
Laser Vaporization: A Novel Treatment of Botryomycosis
No full textBotryomycosis is an uncommon, chronic infection of the skin most often caused by Staphylococcus aureus. It has been successfully treated using carbon dioxide laser vaporization in a case in which antibiotic therapy failed, and surgical excision was not feasible.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74500/1/j.1524-4725.1989.tb03615.x.pd
Chronic Radiodermatitis with Dystrophic Calcification Treated with Mohs Surgery
No full textPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72255/1/j.1524-4725.1985.tb02983.x.pd
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