Highlights of this issue

   Highlights

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Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

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Editorial

   A legislative failure of epidemic proportions

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil
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Éditorial

   Un échec législatif de proportions épidémiques

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil
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Commentary

   Analgesia for skin-breaking procedures in newborns and children: What works best?

K.J.S. Anand, MBBS DPhil
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   Medicine and society: The use of highly active retroviral therapy to reduce HIV incidence at the population level

Aranka Anema, MSc, Evan Wood, MD PhD, and Julio S.G. Montaner, MD
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   Medicine and society: Public engagement in setting priorities in health care

Rebecca A. Bruni, BA BScN, Andreas Laupacis, MD MSc, Douglas K. Martin, PhD for the University of Toronto Priority Setting in Health Care Research Group
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News

   The gambling take: balancing revenues and responsibilities

Roger Collier
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   Do slot machines play mind games with gamblers?

Roger Collier
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   For the record

Wayne Kondro
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   Highly lauded drug assessment program under attack

Ann Silversides
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   Immigrant workers flood training program

Ryan Tumilty
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   Breast cancer rises in India

Sanjit Bagchi
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   Pens, mugs, clocks, notepads and other handouts

Janet Rae Brooks
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   News briefs

Roger Collier, Ann Silversides, and Wayne Kondro
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   Dispatch from the medical front: Six days in the delta

Khine Myae
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Research

   The effect of vapocoolant spray on pain due to intravenous cannulation in children: a randomized controlled trial

Ken J. Farion, MD, Karen L. Splinter, MD, Kym Newhook, BScN RN, Isabelle Gaboury, MSc, and William M. Splinter, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 31-36. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Effectiveness of sucrose analgesia in newborns undergoing painful medical procedures

Anna Taddio, BScPhm PhD, Vibhuti Shah, MD MSc, Rebecca Hancock, MSc, Ryan W. Smith, BASc MSc, Derek Stephens, MSc, Eshetu Atenafu, MSc, Joseph Beyene, PhD, Gideon Koren, MD, Bonnie Stevens, RN PhD, and Joel Katz, PhD
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Analysis

   Protecting global health security through the International Health Regulations: requirements and challenges

Kumanan Wilson, MD MSc, Barbara von Tigerstrom, LLB PhD, and Christopher McDougall, MA
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Practice

   Clinical vistas: Nonrotation of the intestine

Pazhanivel Mohan, MD, Murali Ramamoorthy, MD, and Jayanthi Venkataraman, MD
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   What is your call?: Pruritic, serpiginous eruption in a returning traveller

Tamara Micantonio, MD and Ketty Peris, MD
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Letters

   Use of Doppler ultrasonography to predict pre-eclampsia

Agustín Conde-Agudelo, MD MPH and Marshall Lindheimer, MD
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   Use of Doppler ultrasonography to predict pre-eclampsia

Gerben ter Riet, MD PhD, Jeltsje S. Cnossen, MD, Joris A.M. van der Post, MD PhD, Ben W. Mol, MD PhD, Rachel K. Morris, MD, and Khalid S. Khan, MD
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   Electronic medical records

Gary Viner, BSc MD and Avi Parush, PhD
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   Medical isotope production and nuclear terrorism

Nancy Covington, MD
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   Safe drinking water for rural Canadians

Hans Peterson, PhD and Mark Torchia, PhD
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   Faith and the end of life

Emmanuel Maicas, PhD MD
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   Faith and the end of life

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil, Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc, and Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD
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   Prehospital and in-hospital advanced life-support

Ian M. Wishart, MD
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Corrections

   Corrections

CMAJ 2008 179: 56. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Corrections

CMAJ 2008 179: 56. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Corrections

CMAJ 2008 179: 56. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Left Atrium

   Summer reading: Honouring the dead

Derek Puddester, MD
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   Summer reading: Skeptic's delight

Wayne Kondro, MA
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   Summer reading: Hospital design: form and function

Maria Cook
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   Summer reading: Moments of insight

Paul Finnegan, MD
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Clinical Images

   Kaposi sarcoma of the lung

Christina Kim, BSc MD and David Shu, MD
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Salon

   Numbers are nice, but stories matter

Dan Gardner
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