Highlights of this issue

   Highlights

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Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

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Editorial

   Direct-to-consumer advertising: end the compromise

Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc
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Éditorial

   La publicité directe au consommateur : fini les compromis

Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc
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Commentary

   The missing link in tobacco control

Jon O. Ebbert, MD and J. Taylor Hays, MD
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News

   Canada lags in standardized protocols for medical labs

Dan Lett
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   Gambling treatment options: a roll of the dice

Roger Collier
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   Briefly

Wayne Kondro
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   Public–private health care delivery becoming the norm in Sweden

Christopher Mason
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   For the record

Wayne Kondro
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   The verdict's in: citizens are the solution

Ann Silversides
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   Congo ceasefire brings little relief for women

Amanda Truscott
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   Dispatch from the medical front: Darfur: arrival

Maaike van Rijn
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Research

   Pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Mark J. Eisenberg, MD MPH, Kristian B. Filion, MSc, Daniel Yavin, BSc, Patrick Bélisle, MSc, Salvatore Mottillo, BSc, Lawrence Joseph, PhD, André Gervais, MD, Jennifer O'Loughlin, PhD, Gilles Paradis, MD MSc, Stephane Rinfret, MD MSc, and Louise Pilote, MD PhD
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   Research letter: Intentions of smokers to use free nicotine replacement therapy

John A. Cunningham, PhD and Peter L. Selby, MBBS
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Review

   Public health: Quality of indoor residential air and health

Robert Dales, MD MSc(Epi, Ling Liu, MMD PhD, Amanda J. Wheeler, PhD, and Nicolas L. Gilbert, MSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 147-152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

Analysis

   Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success

Kaveh G. Shojania, MD and Alan J. Forster, MD MSc
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Practice

   Teaching cases: Caterpillar-induced bleeding syndrome in a returning traveller

Kris Chan, MD, Adrienne Lee, MD, Rodrigo Onell, MD, Wai Etches, BM BCh, Susan Nahirniak, MD, Sean M. Bagshaw, MD MSc, and Loree M. Larratt, MD
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   Clinical images: Watermelon stomach

Soumya Chatterjee, MD MS
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Letters

   Disease surveillance

David Butler-Jones, MD MHSc
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   Disease surveillance

Amir Attaran, LLB DPhil and Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc
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   Distressing news on the Therapeutics Initiative

Patricia Kaufert, PhD and Joseph Kaufert, PhD
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   Dangers for children in the care of drug users

Steven Bellemare, MD
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   Missed opportunity

Ehor William Gauk
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Left Atrium

   Lifeworks: Monsters of scientific reason

Alan King, BA
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   Room for a view: Guidance for the family, friends and caregivers of patients with brain injuries

Inger Harbom Jones, BScN RN
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   Book reviews: Quarantine lessons from islands to airports

Erica Weir, MD
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   Book review: Osler quotes redux

Ken Flegel, MDCM MSc
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Clinical images

   Gallstone ileus

Michael Samarkos, MD MSc and Virginia Makrygianni, MD
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Salon

   Thin police

Siri Agrell, BA
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