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Table of Contents

October 14, 2003; Volume 169,Issue 8

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 745;

Editorial

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    A Canadian agency for public health: If not now, when?
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 741;

Commentary

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    Safer injecting facilities in Vancouver: considering issues beyond potential use
    Craig L. Fry
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 777-778;
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    Protection at the cutting edge: the case for central review of human gene transfer research
    Jonathan Kimmelman
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 781-782;
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    A practical approach to airway management in patients with SARS
    Andrew Cooper, Amit Joglekar and Neill Adhikari
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 785-787;
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    Recommendations for screening and prevention of tuberculosis in patients with HIV and for screening for HIV in patients with tuberculosis and their contacts
    Richard Long, Stan Houston, Earl Hershfield and ; for The Canadian Tuberculosis Committee of the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 789-791;

News

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    Is it flu or SARS? MDs gear up for a difficult winter
    Allison Gandey
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 821;
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    For £29, step to the front of ER queue
    Mary Helen Spooner
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 821-821-a;
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    New SARS recommendations to be released this month
    Allison Gandey
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 822;
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    Canadian media say DTC pharma ads the right Rx
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 822-822-a;
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    Pharmacies, not MDs, should distribute medicinal marijuana: chair
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 823;
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    CMAJ study leads to action in Quebec
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 823-823-a;
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    As number of medical schools surges, so does concern about quality
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 823-823-b;
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    Canada's approach to public health must be reinvented: SARS report
    Allison Gandey
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 824;
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    Medical students need own charter, CFMS says
    Pat Rich
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 824-824-a;
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    Will police presence deter use of drug injection site?
    Heather Kent
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 825;
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    As it turns 20, country's largest AIDS-service group busier than ever
    Ann Silversides
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 825-825-a;
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    News @ a glance
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 826;

Research

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    Potential use of safer injecting facilities among injection drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
    Thomas Kerr, Evan Wood, Dan Small, Anita Palepu and Mark W. Tyndall
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 759-763;
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    Incidence and estimated rates of residual risk for HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B and human T-cell lymphotropic viruses in blood donors in Canada, 1990–2000
    Jo Anne Chiavetta, Michael Escobar, Alice M. Newman, Yaohua He, Pete Driezen, Shelley Deeks, Devon E. Hone, Sheila F. O'Brien and Graham Sher
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 767-773;

Review

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    Determining resuscitation preferences of elderly inpatients: a review of the literature
    Christopher Frank, Daren K. Heyland, Benjamin Chen, Donald Farquhar, Kathryn Myers and Ken Iwaasa
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 795-799;

Practice

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    High-altitude decompression illness: case report and discussion
    G. Michael Allan and David Kenny
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 803-807;
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    Congenital abdominal wall defects
    Erica Weir
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 809-810;
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    Patient self-care: helping patients make therapeutic choices
    Eric Wooltorton
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 810;
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    A 12-year-old girl with pharyngitis, meningitis and sinovenous thrombosis
    Jacob L. Jaremko, Adam Kirton and Jennifer L. Brenner
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 811-812;
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    Safety updates: repaglinide (GlucoNorm) and bicalutamide (Casodex)
    Eric Wooltorton
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 813;

Letters

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    Word watch
    Gary Pekeles
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 749;
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    Word watch
    Michael J. Schull and Donald A. Redelmeier
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 749-749-a;
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    Physician supply: future tense
    C.R.S. Dawes
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 749-750;
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    Physician supply: future tense
    Chris MacKnight and David B. Hogan
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 750-751;
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    Physician supply: future tense
    Charles T. Low
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 751-752;
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    Physician supply: future tense
    Michael J. Borrie, William Dalziel, Rory Fisher, William Molloy and John Puxty
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 752;
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    Physician supply: future tense
    Frank T. Denton, Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 752-753;
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    The whiplash debate
    Harold Merskey
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 753;
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    The whiplash debate
    Andrew Malleson
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 753-754;
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    The whiplash debate
    Harald Schrader, Gunnar Bovim and Trond Sand
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 754-755;
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    Acute hepatitis associated with levofloxacin in a patient with renal insufficiency
    Kelly Airey and Elizabeth Koller
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 755;
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    Violence in Liberia
    Madeleine Cole
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 755-755-a;
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    Correction
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 755-755-b;

The Left Atrium

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    Help and hindrance
    Joel Pauls Wohlgemut
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 815;
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    La Pietà of the ER
    Brian Deady
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 816;
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    Photo opportunities
    Jonah Samson
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 817;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 887;

Éditorial

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    Une agence canadienne de la santé publique : sinon maintenant, quand?
    CMAJ October 14, 2003 169 (8) 743;
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