Travel medicine guide published LCDC wins award Ovarian cancer

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400 Canadians) to compare 2 pro-           provide pre-travel consultations.          contributing scientific expertise and
tease inhibitors: nelfinavir, which is        The first edition is being distrib-     resources to help develop response
an investigational agent under review      uted to travel-medicine specialists        mechanisms throughout the hemi-
in the US, and ritonavir, which is li-     across Canada; a revised edition,          sphere. The presentation was made
censed for use in Canada.                  which will incorporate feedback from       by the American Association for
                                           these clinics, will be more widely         World Health.
Travel medicine guide                      available. However, physicians now
published                                  may order complimentary copies of a        Ovarian cancer fund
                                           patient booklet with health tips for       established
  wo
T officials of the International So-       travellers, The Travel Booster; call 800
ciety of Travel Medicine, in conjunc-      268-4171 or 416 667-2611.                  Patrick Boyer, author, teacher and
tion with Pasteur Mérieux Con-                                                        former member of Parliament, is
naught, have written a travel medicine     LCDC wins award                            chairing a Genesis Research Founda-
guide to help physicians give pre-                                                    tion charity to raise awareness and
travel health advice to their patients.    The Laboratory Centre for Disease          money for ovarian cancer research in
Emporiatrics: A handbook for health care   Control (LCDC) was awarded a               memory of his wife. During the next
professionals was written by Dr. Jay       World Health Day Award for                 3 years the Corinne Boyer Fund for
Keystone, physician at the centre for      strengthening the regional capacity        Ovarian Cancer Research hopes to
Travel and Tropical Medicine at the        for surveillance of emerging and re-       raise $5 million for awareness cam-
T oronto Hospital, and Lisa Sawyer, a      emerging infectious diseases. The          paigns and medical research, which
nurse health educator for Pasteur          LCDC and the Pan American Health           will be based at Mount Sinai Hospi-
Mérieux Connaught. It provides cur-        Organization are collaborating to im-      tal, Toronto. Ovarian cancer kills
rent information on preventive mea-        plement a plan to respond to emerg-        1500 Canadian women each year and
sures and the epidemiology of travel-      ing infectious diseases throughout the     is the fourth leading cause of cancer
related illness to help physicians who     western hemisphere, with the LCDC          mortality among women.


     Sometimes, he concluded, “I           ber other things . . . and thousands       Apr. 22 funeral service in Ottawa,
  think back to those days in Win-         of young Canadians who never               Squires said that even though he
  nipeg and to how little things have      made it home with me.”                     “didn’t always agree with the senti-
  really changed.”                            After the war he practised              ments Doug expressed in his
     More recently, he discussed the       pathology and then moved into the          columns, I was awed by his uncanny
  role of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the          administrative field, first as dean of     ability to cut through today’s self-
  American physician involved in           medicine at Queen’s University             righteous political correctness to re-
  many assisted suicides — he con-         and then as executive director of          veal ourselves as we really are.”
  sidered him a hero — as well as eu-      the Association of Canadian Med-              Squires concluded that many
  thanasia, health care rationing and      ical Colleges. He was a senior             columns “struck chords that were
  physician morale.                        member of the CMA, emeritus                far deeper than [readers] necessar-
     Waugh, who graduated from             member of the Canadian Associa-            ily wanted to go. That’s probably
  McGill in 1942, spent his early pro-     tion of Pathologists and past presi-       why they caused such furore.
  fessional years in the army before       dent of the National Cancer Insti-         Doug called himself a curmud-
  being trained in pathology. Like so      tute of Canada. He is survived by          geon, but I rather think that, true
  many physicians of that era, military    his wife, Sheila, and 3 brothers.          to his training as a pathologist,
  experience had a major impact on            Dr. Bruce Squires, CMAJ’s edi-          identifying the absolute truths was
  his life. He returned to the topic in    tor-in-chief when most of Waugh’s          his real goal. Thank you, Doug.”
  a column marking the 50th anniver-       columns appeared, said his “vast              As the editor who handled his
  sary of VE-Day in May 1995, when         experience” in different aspects of        columns, I’m going to miss work-
  he recalled spending May 8, 1945,        medicine made the columns possi-           ing with a lively and daring writer
  in a little town in Germany. He had      ble. “The column also gave him             who took me down many new
  many memories from those times,          the freedom to look at topics in en-       roads. CMAJ readers will miss him
  he reported, but when VE-Day rolls       tirely different ways.”                    too. — Patrick Sullivan, News and
  around each year “I mostly remem-           Speaking to mourners during the         Features Editor


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