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Table of Contents

June 15, 1999; Volume 160,Issue 12

Commentary * Commentaire

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    Substitute decision-making for cognitively impaired older people
    M. Brockett
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1721-1723;
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    Oral isotretinoin: prescribers beware
    N. H. Shear
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1723-1724;

Editorial * Éditorial

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    New variant CJD and the blood supply: Canadian Blood Services reacts
    J. Hoey
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1681;
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    La nouvelle variante de la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob et l'approvisionnement en sang : la Société canadienne du sang réagit
    J. Hoey
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1683;

Features * Chroniques

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    The Canada Health Act goes on trial
    S. Wharry
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1751;
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    Easier-to-use fitness-to-drive guide on way from CMA
    B. Sibbald
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1752;
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    Fear of black market means no RU-486 for Canada until US approves drug
    B. Sibbald
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1753-1754;
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    Task force offers $547 000 to solve shootings
    B. Sibbald
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1754;
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    Canada's Kosovar refugees "surprisingly healthy"
    B. Sibbald
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1755;

Heart & Soul * Gens de coeur

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    Tearing down walls in Canada's prisons
    L. Cohen
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1804;

Letters * Correspondance

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    College-generated lawsuits
    R. G. Holmes
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1695;
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    College-generated lawsuits
    T. F. Handley
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1695;
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    Antibiotic resistance: the agricultural connection
    G. G. Khachatourians
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1696-1697;
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    Barometer falling
    I. Buckingham
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1697;
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    Update on the new virus in Malaysia
    C. E. Caplan
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1697;
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    New method for prostate exam
    N. Hotte
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1697;
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    Alternative views on alternative therapies
    S. M. Sagar
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1697-1698;
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    Alternative views on alternative therapies
    D. G. Warr and I. F. Tannock
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1698-1699;

News and analysis * Nouvelles et analyses

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    Nova Scotia MDs to earn more for treating elderly
    D. Grant
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1689;
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    BC exercise program studies cardiac kids
    H. Kent
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1689-1690;
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    Have North Americans taken "fat phobia" too far?
    A. Silversides
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1690;
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    Pickets descent on CMA during May protest
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1690;
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    Cancer numbers rise but risk remains stable
    L. Buske
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1691;
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    DNA testing via the Internet
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1691;
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    Gene defect driving diabetes epidemic on Ontario reserve
    G. Basky
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1692;
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    Longer warfarin treatment cuts risk of repeat clots
    G. Basky
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1692;

On_the_Net@cma.ca * Sur_le_Net@cma.ca

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    Mapping your way through MEDLINE
    D. Green
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1747;

Research * Recherche

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    Saskatchewan physicians' attitudes and knowledge regarding assessment of medical fitness to drive
    S. C. Marshall and N. Gilbert
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1701-1704;
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    Decision-making for long-term tube-feeding in cognitively impaired elderly people
    S. L. Mitchell and FME. Lawson
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1705-1709;
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    Physicians' perceptions of the effect on clinical services of an alternative funding plan at an academic health sciences centre
    M. Godwin, S. Shortt, L. McIntosh and C. Bolton
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1710-1714;
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    Identifier les besoins de formation en éthique: approche méthodologique centrée sur la clinique
    H. Marcoux
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1715-1718;
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    Fetal exposure to oral isotretinoin: failure to comply with the Pregnancy Prevention Program
    G. Atanackovic and G. Koren
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1719-1720;

Review * Synthèse

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    Tuberculosis: 7. Laboratory aspects of diagnosis
    A. Laszlo
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1725-1729;
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    Canadian health expenditures: Where do we really stand internationally?
    R. Deber and B. Swan
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1730-1734;
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    A physician-centered intervention to shorten hospital stay: a pilot study
    J. C. Setrakian, K. M. Flegel, T. A. Hutchinson, S. Charest, L. Côté, MDDB. Edwardes and I. B. Corbett
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1735-1737;
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    Canadian Consensus Conference on Dementia: a physician's guide to using the recommendations
    CJS. Patterson, S. Gauthier, H. Bergman, C. A. Cohen, J. W. Feightner, H. Feldman and D. B. Hogan
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1738-1742;

The Left Atrium * De l'oreille gauche

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    The vulgar pushing scions of a new science (review of Mesmermized: powers of mind in Victorian Britain)
    P. Vaughan
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1743-1744;
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    Two thousand words
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1744;
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    Bos bovis
    A. J. Lupin
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1745-1746;
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    Against wisdom
    R. Maunder
    CMAJ June 15, 1999 160 (12) 1746;
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Vol. 160, Issue 12
15 Jun 1999
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