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Table of Contents

October 19, 1999; Volume 161,Issue 8

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 929;

Editorial

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    Editor's Preface
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 925;

News

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    Court rejects differential pay for MDs trained outside BC
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 933;
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    New breast-feeding management guidelines
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 933-933-a;
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    New approach to dyspepsia
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 933-933-b;
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    This month in medicine: ether day
    Venita Jay
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 934;
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    BC embraces less-invasive breast biopsy system
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 934-934-a;
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    With CME, time is not on MDs' side
    Shelley Martin
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 935;
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    Rapid lab test device for office on the way
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 935-936;
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    New video aims to solve "the puzzle of menopause"
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 936;
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    Don't be late, vaccinate
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 936-936-a;
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    Former Ottawa dean receives gender equity award
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 937;
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    Finding the gene that regulates HDL cholesterol
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 937-937-a;

Research

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    Furby does not interfere with medical devices
    Kok-Swang Tan and Irwin Hinberg
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 971;

Letters

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    CABG in Canada
    William A. Ghali, Hude Quan and Rollin Brant
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 941;
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    Does treating hypertension protect against dementia?
    A. Mark Clarfield
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 941-941-a;
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    Does treating hypertension protect against dementia?
    Christopher J.S. Patterson and David B. Hogan
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 943;
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    Debating the patient's "right to know"
    Robert Robson
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 944;
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    Debating the patient's "right to know"
    Eike-Henner W. Kluge
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 944-944-a;
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    Debating the patient's "right to know"
    C. David Naylor
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 944-944-b;
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    Fruitful discussions about drug interactions
    J. David Spence
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 946;
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    Correction
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 946-946-a;

The Left Atrium

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    Voices of experience
    Clare M. Pain
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1013;
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    The memorabilia of madness
    Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1014-1015;
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    Schizophrenia
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1015;
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    Röntgen's rays
    Wolf Seufert
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1016;
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    Tetanus
    Robert Stacey
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1016-1016-a;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1087;

Editorials

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    Accessible advice: improving glucose control in patients with diabetes
    Alun Edwards
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 975-976;
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    CMAJ's impact factor: room for recalculation
    K. S. Joseph and John Hoey
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 977-978;
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    Journal impact factor: a brief review
    Eugene Garfield
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 979-980;
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    Echocardiography in stroke: Which probe when?
    Christopher R. Thompson
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 981-982;
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    Will increasing medical school enrolment solve Canada's physician supply problems?
    Greg L. Stoddart and Morris L. Barer
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 983-984;
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    How quickly does CMAJ evaluate submissions?
    Erica Weir and K. S. Joseph
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 985;

Education

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    Preventive health care, 1999 update: 2. Echocardiography for the detection of a cardiac source of embolus in patients with stroke
    Moira K. Kapral, Frank L. Silver and With the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 989-996;
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    Preventive health care, 1999 update: 3. Follow-up after breast cancer
    Larissa K.F. Temple, Elaine E.L. Wang, Robin S. McLeod and With the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1001-1008;

Evidence

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    Variations in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in Quebec between 1988 and 1994
    Nicole Hébert-Croteau, Jacques Brisson, Jean Latreille, Caty Blanchette and Luc Deschênes
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 951-955;
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    Insulin adjustment by a diabetes nurse educator improves glucose control in insulin-requiring diabetic patients: a randomized trial
    David M. Thompson, Sharon E. Kozak and Sam Sheps
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 959-962;
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    Evaluating the effectiveness of 2 educational interventions in family practice
    Alexander E.M. Borgiel, J. Ivan Williams, David A. Davis, Earl V. Dunn, Neil Hobbs, Brian Hutchison, C. Ruth Wilson, Jamie Jensen, Jennifer J.S. O'Neil and Martin J. Bass
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 965-970;

Features

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    "Is everyone as tired as I am?" The CMA's physician survey results, 1999
    Shelley Martin
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1020-1021;
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    A step ahead of the law, "Compassion Club" sells marijuana to patients referred by MDs
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1024;
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    How bad is the brain drain?
    Charlotte Gray
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1028-1029;

Heart and Soul

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    Gone to camp
    Susan Lightstone
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1088;

On the Net

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    Major money starting to flow on the Web
    Michael OReilly
    CMAJ October 19, 1999 161 (8) 1017;
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