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   Highlights
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Dans ce numéro   Back

   Dans ce numéro
CMAJ 2008 179: 1095. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Editorial   Back

   The error of not measuring asthma
Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD and Alan Kaplan, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1099-1100. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Éditorial   Back

   Ne pas évaluer l'asthme : une erreur
Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD and Alan Kaplan, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1101-1102. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Commentary   Back

   Evaluating Vancouver's supervised injection facility: data and dollars, symbols and ethics
Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD, Kamyar Arasteh, PhD, and Holly Hagan, PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1105-1106. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Progress and promise in the management of chronic kidney disease
Garabed Eknoyan, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1107-1108. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News   Back

   British Columbia experiments with checkups by the dozen
Christie McLaren
CMAJ 2008 179: 1111-1112. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Canada Health Act breaches are being ignored, pro-medicare groups charge
Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2008 179: 1112-1113. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   American entrepreneur files free trade challenge on medicare
Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 179: 1113-1114. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Federal election wrap: medical profession to be sparsely represented in House of Commons
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 179: 1114-1115. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   For the record
CMAJ 2008 179: 1115-1116. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   National health human resources plan "a hard sell"
Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2008 179: 1116. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Private facilities must make educational contribution
Erin Driscoll
CMAJ 2008 179: 1117. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Pharma giants to create databases on gifts to physicians
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 179: 1118. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Briefly
Wayne Kondro
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   Ugandan effort to constrain HIV spread hampered by systemic and cultural obstacles to male circumcision
Rosebell Kagumire
CMAJ 2008 179: 1119-1120. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Dispatch from the medical front: Somali symbiosis, part 1: what I saw
John Barnhill
CMAJ 2008 179: 1120. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Research   Back

   Overdiagnosis of asthma in obese and nonobese adults
Shawn D. Aaron, MD, Katherine L. Vandemheen, BScN, Louis-Philippe Boulet, MD, R. Andrew McIvor, MD, J. Mark FitzGerald, MD, Paul Hernandez, MD, Catherine Lemiere, MD, Sat Sharma, MD, Stephen K. Field, MD, Gonzalo G. Alvarez, MD, Robert E. Dales, MD, Steve Doucette, MSc, Dean Fergusson, PhD for the Canadian Respiratory Clinical Research Consortium
CMAJ 2008 179: 1121-1131. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  
   Prevalence of asthma among Chinese adolescents living in Canada and in China
Hong-Yu Wang, MD PhD, Gary W.K. Wong, MD, Yu-Zhi Chen, MD, Alexander C. Ferguson, MB ChB, Justina M. Greene, Yu Ma, MD, Nan-Shan Zhong, MD, Christopher K.W. Lai, DM, and Malcolm R. Sears, MB ChB
CMAJ 2008 179: 1133-1142. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  
   The cost-effectiveness of Vancouver's supervised injection facility
Ahmed M. Bayoumi, MD MSc and Gregory S. Zaric, PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1143-1151. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Review   Back

   Clinical guidelines: Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease
Adeera Levin, MD, Brenda Hemmelgarn, MD PhD, Bruce Culleton, MD MSc, Sheldon Tobe, MD, Philip McFarlane, MD PhD, Marcel Ruzicka, MD PhD, Kevin Burns, MD, Braden Manns, MD MSc, Colin White, MD, Francoise Madore, MD MSc, Louise Moist, MD MSc, Scott Klarenbach, MD MSc, Brendan Barrett, MD MSc, Robert Foley, MD MSc, Kailash Jindal, MD, Peter Senior, MBBS PhD, Neesh Pannu, MD MSc, Sabin Shurraw, MD, Ayub Akbari, MD, Adam Cohn, MD, Martina Reslerova, MD PhD, Vinay Deved, MD, David Mendelssohn, MD, Gihad Nesrallah, MD, Joanne Kappel, MD, Marcello Tonelli, MD SM for the Canadian Society of Nephrology
CMAJ 2008 179: 1154-1162. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Online Appendices]  

Analysis   Back

   Cancer in Canada in 2008
Loraine D. Marrett, PhD, Prithwish De, MHSc PhD, Parisa Airia, MD MSc, Dagny Dryer, MD for the steering committee of Canadian Cancer Statistics 2008
CMAJ 2008 179: 1163-1170. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Practice   Back

   What is your call?: Painless pink papules with central porcelain-white scars
P. Régine Mydlarski, MD, Duane F. Barber, MD, and Lynne H. Robertson, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1171-1173. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Letters   Back

   Number needed to treat and baseline risks
James P. McCormack, BSc(Pharm)
CMAJ 2008 179: 1174. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Fostering public engagement
Graham Sher, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1174-1175. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Testimonials for vaccine-preventable illnesses
Cornelius Woelk, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1175. [Full Text] [PDF]  
   Not the view of Canadian Medical Association
Robert Ouellet, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1175. [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium   Back

   Room for a view: On becoming
Shane Neilsen, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1176. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Book review: The impetus to cure
Mark Frutkin
CMAJ 2008 179: 1177. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Book review: Rethinking randomized controlled trials
Jeremy Howick, PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1178. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  
   Book review: Chronicles of a cardiologist in Canada's North
Amy Hendricks, MDCM
CMAJ 2008 179: 1179. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Clinical images   Back

   Pain in both knees
Wei-Jing Lee, MD, Antonio Leo T TE, MD, and Yung-Ze Cheng, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1227. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

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   The high cost of being an (aspiring) medical student
Alexander N.J. White
CMAJ 2008 179: 1228. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

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