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Table of Contents

November 30, 1999; Volume 161,Issue 11

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1377;

Editorial

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    Editor's preface
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1373;

News

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    New billing system for Mountie patients
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1381;
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    Advise patients against hoarding drugs because of Y2K fears, MDs asked
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1381-1381-a;
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    NS sets precedent with maternity benefits for physicians
    Dorothy Grant
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1381-1381-b;
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    Built-in antibiotics to help prosthesis patients
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1382;
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    Canada's pitiful ranking in imaging technology spurs project Creating a roadmap
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1382-1383;
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    Logging on in record numbers
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1383;
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    Ontario police warn of jimson weed dangers
    David Helwig
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1384;
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    This month in medical history: the tragic life of Typhoid Mary
    Venita Jay
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1384-1384-a;
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    Light at the end of the catheter for heart-transplant patients
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1385;
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    Scientists working on killer cure
    Steve Wharry
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1385-1385-a;

Research

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    Recent versus historical trends in preterm birth in Canada
    K. S. Joseph and Michael S. Kramer
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1409;

Letters

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    Decrease in CMPA's legal bills
    Margaret A. Ross
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1389;
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    Support for support hose
    Monika Moniuszko
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1389-1389-a;
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    Why do we force Canadians to study medicine abroad?
    Alex Porzecanski
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1389-1389-b;
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    Probing Premarin
    Theodor H. Lippert and Alfred O. Mueck
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1389-1390;
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    Probing Premarin
    Aldo R. Baumgartner
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1390;
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    It's always a g'day to immunize, mate
    P. Badrinath
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1390-1390-a;
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    Caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease in Italy
    Lorenzo G. Mantovani and Andrea Belisari
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1390-1390-b;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    J. J.P. Patil
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1392;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    Tim Temple
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1392-1392-a;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    D. M. Goodwin
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1392-1392-b;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    André Piver
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1396;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1396-1396-a;
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    Cheers and jeers for the Charter for Physicians
    John Hoey
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1396-1396-b;
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    Correction
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1396-1396-c;

The Left Atrium

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    The values of reform
    Michael M. Rachlis
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1426-1427;
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    The music of mourning
    Ian A. Cameron
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1427-1428;
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    The art of self-examination
    Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1429;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1471;

Editorials

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    New reproductive technologies: Why are we limiting choices for infertile couples?
    Arthur Leader
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1411-1412;
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    When editors publish in their own journals
    John Hoey
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1412-1413;
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    Time to put the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on trial
    David L. Sackett
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1414-1415;
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    Powassan encephalitis
    Edward D. Ralph
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1416-1417;

Education

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    Powassan encephalitis: a case report with neuropathology and literature review
    Bassam I.A. Gholam, Serge Puksa and John P. Provias
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1419-1422;
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    Unsticking platelets: the role of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor blockade
    Paul W. Armstrong
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1423-1424;
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    Recording that elusive rhythm
    Andrew D. Krahn, George J. Klein, Raymond Yee and Allan C. Skanes
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1424-1425;

Evidence

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    Effectiveness of in vitro fertilization with intracytoplasmic sperm injection for severe male infertility
    Raimundo César Pinheiro, Jean Lambert, François Bénard, François Mauffette and Pierre Miron
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1397-1401;
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    Use of β-blocker therapy in older patients after acute myocardial infarction in Ontario
    Paula A. Rochon, Geoffrey M. Anderson, Jack V. Tu, Jocalyn P. Clark, Jerry H. Gurwitz, John Paul Szalai and Paula Lau
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1403-1408;

Features

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    Dr. Krop gets knuckles rapped, but vows to fight college's "Inquisition"
    Charlotte Gray
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1431-1432;
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    Staffing crisis looms, radiologists warn
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1433;
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    Ball rolling on research into heading injuries
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1434;
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    MDs sceptical as BC gives stamp of approval to traditional Chinese medicine
    Terry Johnson
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1435-1436;
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    "Hospital" care moves into the home in London, Ont.
    Lynne Swanson
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1437;

Heart and Soul

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    Call of the wild keeps physician up North
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1472;

On the Net

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    MCC readies a new, computerized medical qualifying exam
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ November 30, 1999 161 (11) 1430;
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