Gunderson, S, Nordone, S, LaVoy, A, Zhang, L, Klaenhammer, T, Dean, G
No abstract available.
Stoeker, L, Nordone, S, LaVoy, A, Tallon, R, Klaenhammer, T, Dean, G
No abstract available.
Fader, M., Clarke-O'Neill, S., Cook, D., Dean, G., Brooks, R., Cottenden, A., ...
Summary Absorbent pads are the main method of managing urinary incontinence in residential settings for older people. Improvements in technology have resulted in highly absorbent products which may...
Clarke-O'Neill, S., Pettersson, L., Fader, M., Dean, G., Brooks, R., Cottenden, A.
• The Continence Product Evaluation Network (CPE network) is funded by the Medical Devices Agency (MDA) of the Department of Health, to undertake comparative evaluations of continence products. •...
Users' reactions to information technology: some multivariate models and their implications. (1997)
Clegg, C., Carey, N., Dean, G., Hornby, P., Bolden, R.
We summarize empirical work examining the impact on users of information technology (IT) and identify some gaps in current knowledge. We outline some alternative multivariate models of users'...
MAST CELLS IN THE SYNOVIUM AND SYNOVIAL FLUID IN OSTEOARTHRHIS (1993)
DEAN, G., HOYLAND, J. A., DENTON, J., DONN, R. P., FREEMONT, A. J.
SF and synovium from normal individuals and patients with OA, RA and traumatic arthritis (TA) were studied for the presence of mast cells (MC). When compared with normals, patients with OA had large...
POSITRON ANNIHILATION STUDIES IN ALKALI HALIDES (1976)
Dean, G., Dannefaer, S., Sobolev, B., Kerr, D., Hogg, B.
Positron annihilation in a series of 16 alkali halides has been studied using the techniques of both lifetime and Doppler broadening. The crystals were irradiated with γ-rays in order to...
POSITRON ANNIHILATION STUDIES IN ALKALI HALIDES (1976)
Dean, G., Dannefaer, S., Sobolev, B., Kerr, D., Hogg, B.
Positron annihilation in a series of 16 alkali halides has been studied using the techniques of both lifetime and Doppler broadening. The crystals were irradiated with γ-rays in order to...
POSITRON ANNIHILATION STUDIES IN ALKALI HALIDES (1976)
Dean, G., Dannefaer, S., Sobolev, B., Kerr, D., Hogg, B.
Positron annihilation in a series of 16 alkali halides has been studied using the techniques of both lifetime and Doppler broadening. The crystals were irradiated with γ-rays in order to...
Dean, G, Downing, H, Shelley, E
Irish male immigrants had twice and female immigrants 1.7 times the expected number of first admissions to psychiatric hospitals in south-east England in 1976 when the expected number was based on...
Multiple sclerosis among immigrants in Greater London.
Dean, G, McLoughlin, H, Brady, R, Adelstein, A M, Tallett-Williams, J
Among immigrants resident in greater London from Europe, Ireland, the USSR, the old Commonwealth countries of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, North and South America, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran the...
Low-dose cyclophosphamide and low-dose interleukin-2 for malignant melanoma.
Mitchell, M. S., Kempf, R. A., Harel, W., Shau, H., Boswell, W. D., Lind, S., ...
We have studied the effects of low-dose recombinant interleukin-2 preceded by low-dose cyclophosphamide on malignant melanoma. Thirty eight outpatients aged from 25 to 75 years were treated with...
Do nurses or doctors have an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis?
A cluster of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients has been reported in seven of 307 nurses in Key West, Florida. The MS death rates in British nurses and qualified medical practitioners were looked at...
Elian, M, Nightingale, S, Dean, G
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is very uncommon among ethnic Asians in the Indian subcontinent, among Asians and Africans resident in the New Commonwealth countries of Africa and in the West Indies. It is...
There has been a marked increase in the reported mortality from motor neuron disease (MND) but not multiple sclerosis (MS) in England and Wales and in a number of other countries. A comparison has...
The mortality from motor neuron disease (MND) and multiple sclerosis (MS) was studied among immigrants to England and Wales from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and East and West Africa...
Multiple sclerosis in research workers studying swayback in lambs: an updated report.
Dean, G, McDougall, E I, Elian, M
Four out of seven research workers into swayback disease, a neurological disease of lambs, developed symptoms and signs of multiple sclerosis, and were reported in 1947. A further worker later joined...
Multiple sclerosis among the United Kingdom-born children of immigrants from the West Indies.
Multiple sclerosis has been reported to be very uncommon in the West Indies. In previous studies immigrants from the West Indies resident in Greater London had only one-eighth the likelihood of being...
Motor neuron disease in a defined English population: estimates of incidence and mortality.
Dean, G, Quigley, M, Goldacre, M
Linked statistics from hospital records and death certificates were used to study the incidence of and mortality from motor neuron disease in a defined English population. The incidence of motor...
Multiple sclerosis in black South Africans and Zimbabweans.
Dean, G, Bhigjee, A I, Bill, P L, Fritz, V, Chikanza, I C, Thomas, J E, ...
Multiple sclerosis is rare among the indigenous black people of Africa. The first account of a black patient with multiple sclerosis in South Africa was published as late as 1987. Since then a search...
Prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the region of Osona, Catalonia, northern Spain.
Bufill, E, Blesa, R, Galan, I, Dean, G
To ascertain the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the region of Osona in Catalonia, northern Spain, an intensive study was undertaken in a small population of 72,000 people over a period of five...
Multiple sclerosis in Malta in 1999: an update
Dean, G, Elian, M, De Bono, A G., Asciak, R, Vella, N, Mifsud, V, ...
Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the islands of Malta and compare it with a previous study undertaken 21 years earlier, when a remarkably low prevalence was found.
Dean, G, Nevin, N, Mikkelsen, M, Karadima, G, Petersen, M, Kelly, M, ...
OBJECTIVES—To investigate a reported cluster of Down's syndrome in offspring of former pupils of a girls' school in Ireland, to establish the prevalence of Down's syndrome among live births in the...
Surfing with spirochaetes: an ongoing syphilis outbreak in Brighton
Poulton, M, Dean, G, Williams, D, Carter, P, Iversen, A, Fisher, M
Conflict of interests: none.
OBJECTIVES—Previous studies have shown that multiple sclerosis is very uncommon among Indian and Pakistani immigrants to England but that their children born in the United Kingdom, in the age...
Motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis among immigrants to Britain.
Dean, G, Brady, R, McLoughlin, H
Hospital discharge rates for various immigrant groups resident in Greater London and the West Midlands were studied to compare the incidence of two diseases of the nervous system-motor neurone...
Multiple sclerosis in southern Europe. I: Prevalence in Sicily in 1975.
Dean, G, Grimaldi, G, Kelly, R, Karhausen, L
Previous reports on large population groups have suggested that the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sicily and southern Italy is low, of the order of 4-8 per 100 000. In contrast, immigrants...
Multiple sclerosis in southern Europe. II: Prevalence in Malta in 1978.
Vassallo, L, Elian, M, Dean, G
After an intensive survey only 14 patients have been found with a diagnosis of probable multiple sclerosis (MS) in the islands of Malta. This is a low prevalence of 4.2 per 100 000. The low...
Dean, G, Goodall, J, Downie, A
Multiple sclerosis has been reported to have a high prevalence in the Orkney and Shetland Islands and in Caithness in comparison with the highlands of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides-the Western...
The prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Sicily. I: Monreale city.
Savettieri, G, Daricello, B, Giordano, D, Karhausen, L, Dean, G
The prevalence of probable multiple sclerosis in Monreale city, close to the university city of Palermo, Sicily, is at least 43 per 100 000. If the possible multiple sclerosis patient is included, it...
The prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Sicily. II: Agrigento city.
Dean, G, Savettieri, G, Giordano, D, Butera, C, Taibi, G, Morreale, S, ...
The prevalence of probable multiple sclerosis in Agrigento city on the south-west coast of Sicily is at least 2 per 100 000. This is likely to be a considerable underestimate of the true prevalence...
Multiple sclerosis in the Republic of San Marino.
Morganti, G, Naccarato, S, Elian, M, Ferrari, P, Kelly, R, Karhausen, L, ...
Previous studies on the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Italy have grossly underestimated the prevalence of the disease. The prevalence in the Republic of San Marino (near Rimini), in Sicily, and...
Multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease: survival and how certified after death.
O'Malley, F, Dean, G, Elian, M
This study assesses the outcome of a random sample of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and motor neurone disease (MND) selected from a previous study carried out between the years 1960 and 1972....
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To ascertain if agricultural workers in the Republic of Ireland had a higher than expected mortality from brain and haematopoietic cancers than occurred in the general population....
Factors related to respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms in the United Kingdom.
Dean, G, Lee, P N, Todd, G F, Wicken, A J, Sparks, D N
Factors related to eight respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms have been studied in a sample of 12 736 men and women aged 37 to 67 living in England, Scotland and Wales. The prevalence of each of...
Community based syphilis screening: feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in case finding
Lambert, N, Fisher, M, Imrie, J, Watson, R, Mercer, C, Parry, J, ...
Objectives: To investigate the feasibility and acceptability of implementing community based syphilis screening using different sample collection techniques, and its effectiveness in screening...
Imrie, J, Lambert, N, Mercer, C H, Copas, A J, Phillips, A, Dean, G, ...
Causes of death of blue-collar workers at a Dublin brewery, 1954--73.
Dean, G., MacLennan, R., McLoughlin, H., Shelley, E.
The suggested association between high consumption of beer and an increased risk of death from cancer of the colon and rectum was investigated among blue-collar workers at a Dublin brewery, who...