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Table of Contents

October 29, 2002; Volume 167,Issue 9

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 985;

Editorial

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    Drug marketing: Unsafe at any dose?
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 981;

Commentary

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    Preventing fractures by preventing falls in older women
    A. John Campbell
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1005-1006;
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    An editorial on editorials
    John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1006-1007;
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    Should combination therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists be prescribed as initial maintenance treatment for asthma?
    Catherine Lemière, Allan Becker, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Dennis Bowie, André Cartier, Donald Cockroft, Robert Cowie, Pierre Ernst, Mark Fitzgerald, Malcolm Sears, Sheldon Spier and The Asthma Committee of the Canadian Thoracic Society
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1008-1009;

News

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    Large numbers of would-be Canadian MDs migrating Down Under
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1043;
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    Poster girl
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1043-1043-a;
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    AIDS activist mum after release from Chinese prison
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1044;
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    Forget US politicians' promises — Canada still cheap-drug mecca
    Milan Korcok
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1044-1044-a;
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    Emergency MD becomes CMAJ's fifth editorial fellow
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1045;
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    Canada must bolster its GM food regulations, not add labels: report
    Wayne Kondro
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1046;
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    Self-regulation challenge on shelf — for now
    Steven Wharry
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1046-1046-a;
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    Reducing medical error: “People doing their best is not enough”
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1047;
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    Almost 1 in 5 MDs now have Web sites
    Shelley Martin
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1047-1047-a;
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    Short-term solution suggested for Bangladesh's arsenic crisis
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1048;
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    Mr. Dragon Boat
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1048-1048-a;

Research

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    Salty broth for salicylate poisoning? Adequacy of overdose management advice in the 2001 Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties
    Jeffrey R. Brubacher, Roy Purssell and Debra A. Kent
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 992-996;
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    Community-based exercise program reduces risk factors for falls in 65- to 75-year-old women with osteoporosis: randomized controlled trial
    Nick D. Carter, Karim M. Khan, Heather A. McKay, Moira A. Petit, Constance Waterman, Ari Heinonen, Patti A. Janssen, Meghan G. Donaldson, Arthur Mallinson, Lenore Riddell, Karen Kruse, Jerilynn C. Prior and Leon Flicker
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 997-1004;

Review

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    New insights into the mechanisms and management of atrial fibrillation
    Paul Khairy and Stanley Nattel
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1012-1020;
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    Medical genetics: 3. An approach to the adult with a genetic disorder
    Dawna M. Gilchrist
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1021-1029;

Practice

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    Genetics 101: polymerase chain reaction
    Alison Sinclair
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1032-1033;
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    Brief safety updates: acetaminophen, ASA and kava
    Eric Wooltorton
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1034;
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    Dental caries: a nation divided
    Erica Weir
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1035;
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    Warfarin, acetylsalicylic acid or both?
    John Hoey
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1036;
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    Books received
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1036-1036-a;
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    Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: a rare but dreadful complication of sepsis
    Malvinder S. Parmar
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1037-1038;

Letters

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    Questions of trust
    Dana W. Hanson
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 986;
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    Questions de confiance
    Dana W. Hanson
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 986-986-a;
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    Questions de confiance
    Stephen D. Chris
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 986-986-b;
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    Questions de confiance
    John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 986-987;
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    Questions de confiance
    John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 987;
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    Medical newsletters: Can they be trusted?
    Jay Brophy
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 987-987-a;
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    The lockout of '62
    Marc Baltzan
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 987-988;
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    The lockout of '62
    Gail Helgason
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 988-989;
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    Risks: Absolute or relative?
    Christine Rivet
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 989;
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    Putting West Nile virus into perspective
    Randy Rudolph
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 989-989-a;
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    Correction
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 989-989-b;

The Left Atrium

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    Psychiatric history
    Vincent Hanlon
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1039-1040;
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    Against adversity
    Neil MacDonald
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1040-1041;
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    Songs of renewal
    Yvonne Owens
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1041-1042;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 1088;

Éditorial

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    La commercialisation des médicaments : dangereuse à toute dose?
    CMAJ October 29, 2002 167 (9) 983;
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