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Table of Contents

August 24, 1999; Volume 161,Issue 4

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 359;

Editorial

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

News

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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;

Letters

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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;

The Left Atrium

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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;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 463;

Editorials

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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;

Education

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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;

Evidence

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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;

Features

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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;

Heart and Soul

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    Marathon canoeing
    Michael OReilly
    CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 464;

On the Net

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    Pulling the shades on Internet data thieves
    Michael OReilly
    CMAJ August 24, 1999 161 (4) 423;
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