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Table of Contents

February 26, 2008; Volume 178,Issue 5

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    Dans ce numéro
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 525-525-a;

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 525;

Editorial

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    Getting to the electronic medical record
    Ken Flegel
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 531; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080139

Éditorial

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    Passer au dossier médical électronique
    Ken Flegel
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 533; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080180

Commentary

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    Research: Measuring blood pressure: A call to bare arms?
    Donald W. McKay
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 591-593; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071787
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    Should physicians warn patients' relatives of genetic risks?
    Mireille Lacroix, Gillian Nycum, Béatrice Godard and Bartha Maria Knoppers
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 593-595; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070956

News

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    Canada's nuclear fallout
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 536-538; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080154
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    For the record
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 539; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080131
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    Crossing paradigms
    Wayne Kondro
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 540-541; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080112
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    “Honorary Canadian” heals a broken space station
    Elizabeth Howell
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080029
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    Therapeutic help from man's best friend
    Lisa Bryden
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 542-543; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080113
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    Economist challenges recruiting hyperbole
    Miriam Shuchman
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 543-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080165
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    News @ a glance
    Wayne Kondro
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 544-545; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080115
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    Dispatch from the medical front: Always accessorize
    Tara Elton-Marshall and Julie Hachey
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 545; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080114

Research

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    Multifaceted intervention to improve diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in patients with recent wrist fracture: a randomized controlled trial
    Sumit R. Majumdar, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Finlay A. McAlister, Debbie Bellerose, Anthony S. Russell, David A. Hanley, Don W. Morrish, Walter P. Maksymowych and Brian H. Rowe
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 569-575; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070981
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    The efficacy and safety of intensive statin therapy: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
    Kiranbir Josan, Sumit R. Majumdar and Finlay A. McAlister
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 576-584; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070675
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    A comparison of blood pressure measurement over a sleeved arm versus a bare arm
    Grace Ma, Norman Sabin and Martin Dawes
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 585-589; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070975

Practice

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    Review: Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 1. Risk assessment and primary prevention of Alzheimer disease
    Christopher Patterson, John W. Feightner, Angeles Garcia, G.-Y. Robin Hsiung, Christopher MacKnight and A. Dessa Sadovnick
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 548-556; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070796
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    Teaching Case Report: Human rabies encephalitis following bat exposure: failure of therapeutic coma
    Robert C. McDermid, Lynora Saxinger, Bonita Lee, Jennie Johnstone, R.T. Noel Gibney, Marcia Johnson and Sean M. Bagshaw
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 557-561; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071326
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    Public Health: Rabies: old disease, new challenges
    Shariq Haider
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 562-563; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071709
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    Public Health: Rabies in India
    Rozario Menezes
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 564-566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071488
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    CMAJ fact sheet: Rabies risk among travellers
    Melanie Di Quinzio and Anne McCarthy
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071443
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    Interesting images: A painful and knotted nasogastric tube
    Shruti Niranjan Tapaiwala, Dawood Al Riyami and Edward Cole
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 568; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.070750

Letters

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    France's health care system
    David S. Heath
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 596; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070166
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    France's health care system
    Irfan A. Dhalla and Sarah Thomson
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 596-596-a; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070167
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    Finasteride therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia
    Thomas J. Helling
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 596-597; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070095
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    Ideology and the Canadian health care system
    John G. Ascah
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 597; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070168
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    Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation
    Vincenzo Puro, Francesco Maria Fusco, Silvia Pittalis, Simone Lanini and Giuseppe Ippolito
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 597-598; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070174
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    Abolishing the law of gravity
    Giuseppe Lippi
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 598; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070180
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    Abolishing the law of gravity
    Michael J. Walsh
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 598-598-a; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1070181

Correction

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    Correction
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 598-598-b; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080133

The Left Atrium

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    Lifework: A perfect and faithful record
    Nadine McInnis
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 599-601; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080158
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    Medical anthropology: Medicos viajeros Boliviaros
    Donna E. Stewart
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 602; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080110

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 647; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080159

Salon

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    Medical humanities for what ails us
    Allan Peterkin
    CMAJ February 26, 2008 178 (5) 648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.071851
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