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Table of Contents

September 21, 1999; Volume 161,Issue 6

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 673;

Editorial

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    Editor's preface
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 669;

News

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    European ban on bovine growth hormones should continue: expert
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 677;
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    Hepatitis outbreak in UK blamed on alternative doctor
    Caroline Richmond
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 678;
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    Psychiatry via televideo an answer to specialist shortage?
    Peter Wilton
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 678-678-a;
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    Slight change in MD:population ratio
    Lynda Buske
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 679;
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    Vancouver company launches new superbug test
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 679-679-a;
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    Australian scientist proposes recipe for cloning extinct tiger
    Gil Kezwer
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 680;
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    British girl recovering after forced heart transplant
    Caroline Richmond
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 680-680-a;
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    Research Update
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 681;

Research

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    Attitudes of Canadian women toward birthing centres and midwife care for childbirth
    Shi Wu Wen, Leslie S. Mery, Michael S. Kramer, Vanie Jimenez, Konia Trouton, Pearl Herbert and Beverly Chalmers
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 708-709;

Letters

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    A morally irrelevant distinction on euthanasia
    Daniel Gorman
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 685;
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    Following the rules in marketing
    Dennis J. Stern
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 685-685-a;
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    Following the rules in marketing
    Murray J. Elston
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 685-685-b;
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    Following the rules in marketing
    Joel Lexchin
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 685-686;
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    Unconventional therapies and cancer
    Monique Bégin and Elizabeth Kaegi
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 686-687;
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    Driving for safety on our roads
    Morley Lertzman and Satyendra Sharma
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 687;
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    Driving for safety on our roads
    Shawn C. Marshall
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 687-688;
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    Moon over Surrey
    Anthony Walter
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 688;

The Left Atrium

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    Blood, sweat and tears
    Bernard A. Cooper
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 732;
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    The eye
    Patricia Rockman
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 733-734;
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    ER nights
    Vincent Hanlon
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 734-735;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 775;

Editorials

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    The treatment of hypertension in Canada: Are we making progress?
    Finlay A. McAlister
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 713-714;
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    Might you be the next Editorial Fellow?
    Erica Weir and John Hoey
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 715;

Education

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    Tuberculosis: 10. Prevention
    Dick Menzies, Terry Nan Tannenbaum and J. Mark FitzGerald
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 717-724;
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    Effectiveness of the Quick Medical Reference as a diagnostic tool
    Jane B. Lemaire, Jeffrey P. Schaefer, Lee Ann Martin, Peter Faris, Martha D. Ainslie and Russell D. Hull
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 725-728;
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    An interdisciplinary approach to a day-long palliative care course for undergraduate students
    Elizabeth J. Latimer, Andrea Deakin, Carolyn Ingram, Lynn O'Brien, Marcia Smoke and Laurie Wishart
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 729-731;

Evidence

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    Hepatitis B virus infection among street youths in Montreal
    Élise Roy, Nancy Haley, Nicole Lemire, Jean-François Boivin, Pascale Leclerc and Jean Vincelette
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 689-693;
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    Hormone replacement therapy: a survey of Ontario physicians' prescribing practices
    Lynn Elinson, Marsha M. Cohen and Tom Elmslie
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 695-698;
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    Trends in the prevalence and treatment of hypertension in Halifax County from 1985 to 1995
    Hermann K. Wolf, Pantelis Andreou, Iqbal R. Bata, Donna G. Comeau, Ronald D. Gregor, George Kephart, David R. MacLean and Ingrid Sketris
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 699-704;

Features

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    Physicians may have to "sell" benefits of immunization to sceptical parents
    Susan Pinker
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 737-738;
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    Polish health care morphs into new system at breakneck speed
    Charlotte Gray
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 739-740;
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    CMPA "amazed" as number of new legal actions against MDs declines in '98
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 741;
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    Health Canada leery as US "nutraceutical" movement prepares to move north
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 742;
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    Swissair disaster taught medical examiners a lesson in logistical challenges
    Dorothy Grant
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 743;

Heart and Soul

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    Cutting-edge musician enters the OR
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 776;

On the Net

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    It's wise to immunize, regardless of what the Web says
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ September 21, 1999 161 (6) 736;
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