Editorial

Conflicts of interests and investments

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Éditorial

Conflits d'intérêts et placements

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Highlights of this issue

Highlights of this issue

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Letters • Correspondance

Views on recertification

Jonathan D. Slater
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Views on recertification

Stanley Lofsky
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Views on recertification

Tom Vandor
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Acute coronary syndromes

Steve Goodacre
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Acute coronary syndromes

Brian D. Steinhart
CMAJ 2004 171: 1322; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041116 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Acute coronary syndromes

Jim Christenson, Grant Innes, Barb Boychuk, and Ken Gin
CMAJ 2004 171: 1322-1323; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041331 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rethinking diabetes care in Canada

Ian Blumer
CMAJ 2004 171: 1323-1324; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1040796 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Final evaluation results for the Fast-Check HIV rapid test kits

Michael L. Rekart, J.A. Quon, and Tony Rees
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A question of ethics

Margaret Somerville
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The doubts and fears of emergency physicians

Ivan Steiner
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Clostridium difficile colitis: A marker for ischemic colitis?

Richard Fiddian-Green
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Clostridium difficile colitis: A marker for ischemic colitis?

Sandra Dial
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Corrections

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Corrections

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Corrections

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Corrections

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Corrections

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Corrections

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Synopsis • Synopsis

       News • Nouvelles

C. difficile: by the numbers

         Laura Eggertson
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Medical schools accept tobacco dollars

         Pauline Comeau
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For-profit clinics are legal but "no solution"

         Loreen Pindera
         CMAJ 2004 171: 1333; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041693 [Full Text] [PDF]  

CMAJ enters for-profit market

         Wayne Kondro
         CMAJ 2004 171: 1334; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041661 [Full Text] [PDF]  

BC and Alberta crack down on cosmetic surgery prizes

         Deborah Jones
         CMAJ 2004 171: 1334; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041695 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physicians sue pharmacy chain for unfair competition

         Brenda Branswell
         CMAJ 2004 171: 1335; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041664 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lawsuits mount in wake of rofecoxib (Vioxx) withdrawal

         Wayne Kondro
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News @ a glance

         Barbara Sibbald
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       Analysis • Analyses

India's HIV-1 epidemic

         Paul Arora, Ajitha Cyriac, and Prabhat Jha
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       Practice • Dans la practique

Sports dermatology part 2: swimming and other aquatic sports

         Anatoli Freiman, Benjamin Barankin, and David J. Elpern
         CMAJ 2004 171: 1339-1341; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1040892 [Full Text] [PDF]  

              Public Health • Santé publique

SARS outbreak in the Greater Toronto Area: the emergency department experience

                       Bjug Borgundvaag, Howard Ovens, Brian Goldman, Michael Schull, Tim Rutledge, Kathy Boutis, Sharon Walmsley, Allison McGeer, Anita Rachlis, and Carolyn Farquarson
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Gonorrhea treatment guidelines in Canada: 2004 update

                       Janice Mann, Rhonda Kropp, Tom Wong, Sylvie Venne, and Barbara Romanowski
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              Clinical Vistas • Images cliniques

A man with an enlarging foot mass

                       Ali Zahrai, Deloar Hossain, John M. Embil, and Elly Trepman
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              Health and Drug Alerts • Alertes médicales et pharmaceutiques

Medical gels and the risk of serious infection

                       Eric Wooltorton
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Research • Recherche

Initial viral load and the outcomes of SARS

Chung-Ming Chu, Leo L.M. Poon, Vincent C.C. Cheng, Kin-Sang Chan, Ivan F.N. Hung, Maureen M.L. Wong, Kwok-Hung Chan, Wah-Shing Leung, Bone S.F. Tang, Veronica L. Chan, Woon-Leung Ng, Tiong-Chee Sim, Ping-Wing Ng, Kin-Ip Law, Doris M.W. Tse, Joseph S.M. Peiris, and Kwok-Yung Yuen
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The impact of SARS on a tertiary care pediatric emergency department

Kathy Boutis, Derek Stephens, Kelvin Lam, Wendy J. Ungar, and Suzanne Schuh
CMAJ 2004 171: 1353-1358; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1031257 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Commentary • Commentaire

Health Canada's new guidelines for body weight classification in adults: challenges and concerns

Simone Lemieux, Lyne Mongeau, Marie-Claude Paquette, Suzanne Laberge, Brigitte Lachance For the members of the GTPPP
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Transparency in drug regulation: Mirage or oasis?

Joel Lexchin and Barbara Mintzes
CMAJ 2004 171: 1363-1365; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041446 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Responding to the needs of children with chronic health conditions in an era of health services reform

Anton R. Miller, Magdalena A. Recsky, and Robert W. Armstrong
CMAJ 2004 171: 1366-1367; doi:10.1503/cmaj.1040019 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review • Synthèse

Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 3. Measures of observer variability (kappa statistic)

Thomas McGinn, Peter C. Wyer, Thomas B. Newman, Sheri Keitz, Rosanne Leipzig, Gordon Guyatt for The Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group
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The Left Atrium • Côté Coeur

Bitter pills

E. Jane Garland
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The mournful wood

Frederick Adolf Paola
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Deaths • Nécrologie

Deaths

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Query • Réflexion

Query

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