Canadian Medical Association Journal: 161 (4)

August 24, 1999; Volume 161,Issue 4

Highlights of this issue

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Deaths, death notices, eulogies and obituaries
CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 357;

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Media coverage of health stories often inaccurate, MDs report
Greg Basky

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 361;
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Vinyl toys, medical devices get clean bill of health
CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 361-361-a;
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Good music . . . good medicine
Dorothy Grant

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 362;
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New aid for breast self-exam
CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 362-362-a;
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Dalhousie's ER doctors given departmental status
CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 362-362-b;
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Looking for an alternative
Lynda Buske

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 363;
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Spironolactone saves lives in heart failure
C. J. Brown

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 364;
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A new weapon against androgen-independent prostate cancer
Heather Kent

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 364-364-a;
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Sale of anonymous prescription data breaches confidentiality
CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 364-364-b;

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Considering the cost of CABG
Michael J. Walsh

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 365;
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Considering the cost of CABG
Gary Naglie, Murray Krahn and Allan Detsky

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 365-365-a;
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Home is where the health care is
Michael Montalto

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 365-366;
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Home is where the health care is
Lee Soderstrom, Pierre Tousignant and Terry Kaufman

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 366;
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A straw-man argument?
Robert Patterson

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 366-367;
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A straw-man argument?
Martin T. Schechter and Michael V. O'Shaughnessy

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 367;
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Smoking out the economics of tobacco use
W. R. Harris

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 367-367-a;
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Smoking out the economics of tobacco use
John Hoey

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 368;
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Whiplash cultures
Robert Ferrari

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 368-368-a;

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Suicide and survival
Paul S. Links

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 418;
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Fear and loathing in residency
Robert Patterson

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 419;
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Anomalies and anonymity
Anne Marie Todkill

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 420;
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Dr. Eisenbarth
Wolf Seufert

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 421;

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Who's afraid of the newspaper advice column?
Vikki Entwistle

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 397-398;
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Voting ourselves rights
Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer and Francoise Baylis

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 399-400;
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Why physicians need a charter
Dan MacCarthy

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 400-401;

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Tuberculosis
Earl Hershfield

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 405-411;
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Elevated levels of serum creatinine
David C. Mendelssohn, Brendan J. Barrett, Larry M. Brownscombe, Jean Ethier, David E. Greenberg, Subodh D. Kanani, Adeera Levin and Edwin B. Toffelmire

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 413-417;

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Which physicians make home visits and why? A survey
Renald Bergeron, Andree Laberge, Lucie Vezina and Michele Aubin

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 369-373;
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Regional variations in the use of home care services in Ontario, 1993/95
Peter C. Coyte and Wendy Young

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 376-380;
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Going the distance
Joanne A. Permaul-Woods, June C. Carroll, Anthony J. Reid, Christel A. Woodward, Greg Ryan, Sharon Domb, Stella Arbitman, Barbara Fallis and Jane Kilthei

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 381-385;
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Confidential prescriber feedback and education to improve antibiotic use in primary care
Janet E. Hux, Michele P. Melady and Donald DeBoer

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 388-392;
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Assessing the quality of newspaper medical advice columns for elderly readers
Frank J. Molnar, Malcolm Man-Son-Hing, William B. Dalziel, Susan L. Mitchell, Barbara E. Power, Anna M. Byszewski and Philip St. John

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 393-395;

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Leak of abortion information creates turmoil at Foothills
Richard Cairney

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 424-425;
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There's a new sheriff at Tunney's Pasture
Charlotte Gray

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 426-427;
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Alberta MDs line up against "antiphysician" billing restrictions
Barbara Sibbald

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 428;
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Consumers rush to buy wares at Canada's travelling "health show"
Janis Hass

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 429;

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Marathon canoeing
Michael OReilly

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 464;

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Pulling the shades on Internet data thieves
Michael OReilly

CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 423;