Highlights

   Highlights

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Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

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Editorial

   Statins, indication creep and risks for children and youth

Noni MacDonald, MD MSc, Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD, and Michael J. Rieder, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1239. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éditorial

   Les statines, l'étendue des indications et les risques pour les enfants et les adolescents

Noni MacDonald, MD MSc, Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD, and Michael J. Rieder, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1241. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentary

   Can studies of harm be harmful?

Joel G. Ray, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 1243-1244. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

Donald E. Low, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1245-1246. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Balancing evidence and opinion in stroke care: the 2008 best practice recommendations

Mark Bayley, MD, Patrice Lindsay, BScN PhD, Chelsea Hellings, BScH, Elizabeth Woodbury, BCom MHA, Stephen Phillips, MBBS on behalf of the Canadian Stroke Strategy (a joint initiative of the Canadian Stroke Network and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada)
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News

   Patient-safety reforms inhibited by systemic impediments

Ann Silversides
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   Jordan's Principle remains in limbo

Dan Lett
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   Health advocates assail Canada's asbestos stance

Roger Collier
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   For the record

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   Canada needs paradigm shift in public health nutrition

Wayne Kondro
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   Briefly

Wayne Kondro
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   Dispatch from the medical front: Somali symbiosis, part 2: what I did

John Barnhill
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Research

   Maternal exposure to folic acid antagonists and placenta-mediated adverse pregnancy outcomes

Shi Wu Wen, MB PhD, Jia Zhou, MB MSc, Qiuying Yang, MD PhD, William Fraser, MD MSc, Olufemi Olatunbosun, MD, and Mark Walker, MSc MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1263-1268. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

   Respiratory fluoroquinolones for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Konstantinos Z. Vardakas, MD, Ilias I. Siempos, MD, Alexandros Grammatikos, MD, Zoe Athanassa, MD, Ioanna P. Korbila, MD, and Matthew E. Falagas, MD DSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 1269-1277. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Review

   Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 6. Management of severe Alzheimer disease

Nathan Herrmann, MD and Serge Gauthier, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1279-1287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendix]  

Analysis

   Global health: Health care reform in Chile

Gabriel Bastías, MD MBA, Tomás Pantoja, MD MSc, Thomas Leisewitz, MD MPH, and Víctor Zárate, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 1289-1292. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Online Appendix]  

Practice

   Review: "Doctor, will that x-ray harm my unborn child?"

Savithiri Ratnapalan, MD, Yedidia Bentur, MD, and Gideon Koren, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1293-1296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   What is your call?: A spontaneous skin lesion

Josie McCabe, MB, Zoe Blades, MB, and Emmet E. McGrath, MB
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Letters

   No-fault compensation systems

William S. Tucker, MD
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   Accuracy in images

Albert Schumacher, MD
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   Accuracy in images

Rajendra Kale, MD
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Corrections

   Corrections

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   Corrections

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Holiday reading

   The cure is a gift

Mark Frutkin
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   Time to heal thyself: Christmas Eve

Shane Neilson, MD
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   Flawed physicians

Michael Cussen, MD
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   Words are not wasted when there is soup to deliver

Amy Hendricks, MDCM
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   Final exam

Catherine Varner, MD
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   Book review: Spilling the beans on the pharmaceutical industry

Miriam Shuchman, MD
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Clinical images

   Fracture of the maxillary bone during hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Yi-Heng Liu, MD, Te-Chun Hsia, MD, Juhn-Cherng Liu, MD, and Wei Chen, MD
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Salon

   A proposal for peace

Mark Leith, MD
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Supplement

   Canadian best practice recommendations for stroke care (updated 2008)

Patrice Lindsay, BScN PhD, Mark Bayley, MD, Chelsea Hellings, BScH, Michael Hill, MSc MD, Elizabeth Woodbury, BCom MHA, Stephen Phillips, MBBS (Canadian Stroke Strategy Best Practices and Standards Writing Group on behalf of the Canadian Stroke Strategy, a joint initiative of the Canadian Stroke Network and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada*)
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Supplément

   Recommandations canadiennes pour les pratiques optimales de soins de l'AVC (mise à jour de 2008)

Patrice Lindsay, BScN PhD, Mark Bayley, MD, Chelsea Hellings, BA, Michael Hill, MSc MD, Elizabeth Woodbury, BCom MHA, Stephen Phillips, MBBS (Groupe de rédaction Pratiques optimales et normes au nom de la Stratégie canadienne de l'AVC une initiative conjointe du Réseau canadien contre les accidents cérébrovasculaires et de la Fondation des maladies du cœ
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