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Table of Contents

December 14, 2010; Volume 182,Issue 18

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1935;

Editorial

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    The federal government’s abandonment of health
    Paul C. Hébert and Matthew Stanbrook
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E809; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101207
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    Governments, pay for smoking cessation
    Erika D. Penz, Braden J. Manns, Paul C. Hébert and Matthew B. Stanbrook
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E810; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101140
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    The federal government’s senseless policy change on tobacco warning labels
    Matthew B. Stanbrook and Paul C. Hébert
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1939; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101583

Commentary

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    Biomarkers in population-based studies
    Dana Glei and Maxine Weinstein
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1943-1944; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101429

News

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    Continuing drug shortages affect North American patients
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E811-E812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3712
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    Critics say UNICEF-Cadbury partnership is mere sugarwashing
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E813-E814; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3720
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    Australian physician advises advance planning for final exit
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E815-E816; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3710
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    Police launch criminal investigation into actions of emergency department
    Dan Lett
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E817-E818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3721
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    Pan-Canadian strategy being developed to tackle mental health in prisons
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E819-E820; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3722
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    Irreconcilable choices in military medicine
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E821-E822; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3723
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    Legal challenges may imperil medicare, public health care advocates say
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E823-E824; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3727
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    Europe develops action plan to address health workforce shortfall
    Tiago Villanueva
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E825-E826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3708
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    Canadian baby boomers shirk safe sex
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E827-E828; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3729
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    Briefly
    Wayne Kondro
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E829-E830; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3732
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    For the record
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E831-E833; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3733
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    Canada’s ehealth software “Tower of Babel”
    Paul Christopher Webster
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1945-1946; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3717
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    Republicans take aim at “Obamacare”
    Cal Woodward
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1948-1950; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3725
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    Unregulated hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinics assailed
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1950-1952; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3709

Research

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    Effect of erythropoietin levels on mortality in old age: the Leiden 85-plus Study
    Wendy P.J. den Elzen, Jorien M. Willems, Rudi G.J. Westendorp, Anton J.M. de Craen, Gerard Jan Blauw, Luigi Ferrucci, Willem J.J. Assendelft and Jacobijn Gussekloo
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1953-1958; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100347
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    Adding monounsaturated fatty acids to a dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods in hypercholesterolemia
    David J.A. Jenkins, Laura Chiavaroli, Julia M.W. Wong, Cyril Kendall, Gary F. Lewis, Edward Vidgen, Philip W. Connelly, Lawrence A. Leiter, Robert G. Josse and Benoît Lamarche
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1961-1967; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092128
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    Low-dose hydrocortisone in patients with cirrhosis and septic shock: a randomized controlled trial
    Yaseen M. Arabi, Abdulrahman Aljumah, Ousama Dabbagh, Hani M. Tamim, Asgar H. Rishu, Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem, Bandar Al Knawy, Ali H. Hajeer, Waleed Tamimi and Antoine Cherfan
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1971-1977; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090707
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    Incidence of hospital admissions and severe outcomes during the first and second waves of pandemic (H1N1) 2009
    Melissa Helferty, Julie Vachon, Jill Tarasuk, Rachel Rodin, John Spika and Louise Pelletier
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1981-1987; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100746

Review

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    Clinical Practice Guideline: Reducing the pain of childhood vaccination: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline
    Anna Taddio, Mary Appleton, Robert Bortolussi, Christine Chambers, Vinita Dubey, Scott Halperin, Anita Hanrahan, Moshe Ipp, Donna Lockett, Noni MacDonald, Deana Midmer, Patricia Mousmanis, Valerie Palda, Karen Pielak, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Michael Rieder, Jeffrey Scott and Vibhuti Shah
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E843-E855; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101720
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    Reducing the pain of childhood vaccination: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (summary)
    Anna Taddio, Mary Appleton, Robert Bortolussi, Christine Chambers, Vinita Dubey, Scott Halperin, Anita Hanrahan, Moshe Ipp, Donna Lockett, Noni MacDonald, Deana Midmer, Patricia Mousmanis, Valerie Palda, Karen Pielak, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Michael Rieder, Jeffrey Scott and Vibhuti Shah
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1989-1995; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092048

Analysis

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    Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a neuroimmunologic hypothesis
    Rebecca E. Anglin, Patricia I. Rosebush and Michael F. Mazurek
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E834-E838; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091442
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    AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care
    Melissa C. Brouwers, Michelle E. Kho, George P. Browman, Jako S. Burgers, Francoise Cluzeau, Gene Feder, Béatrice Fervers, Ian D. Graham, Jeremy Grimshaw, Steven E. Hanna, Peter Littlejohns, Julie Makarski and Louise Zitzelsberger
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E839-E842; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090449
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    Chronic aftershocks of an earthquake on the well-being of children in Haiti: violence, psychosocial health and slavery
    Jhumka Gupta and Alpna Agrawal
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1997-1999; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100526

Practice

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    Clinical Images: Intestinal radiopacities in chronic renal failure
    Roland Schmitt, Hermann Haller and Joachim Lotz
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E856; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091935
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    Clinical Images: Academic branding: erythema ab igne and use of laptop computers
    David Botten, Richard G.B. Langley and Amanda Webb
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E857; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091868
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    Clinical Images: Hyperdense spleen after prolonged gold therapy
    Tommaso Bartalena and Maria Francesca Rinaldi
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E858; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091962
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    Clinical Images: Chronic cough: tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica
    Chun-Chieh Huang and Chin-Chi Kuo
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E859; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091762
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    Clinical Images: Lichen sclerosus in a radiated breast
    Olga Vujovic
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E860; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091800
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    Clinical Images: Percutaneous liver biopsy: a cause of hepatic portal venous gas
    Uei Pua
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E861; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100325
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    Clinical Images: Heterochromia of the scalp hair
    Jianjun Qiao and Hong Fang
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092075
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    Cases: Re-expansion pulmonary edema following thoracentesis
    Rahil Kasmani, Farzan Irani, Kelechi Okoli and Vijay Mahajan
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2000-2002; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090672
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    Five things to know about...: Emergency reversal of warfarin anticoagulation
    Yulia Lin and Jeannie Callum
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2004; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100983
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    Clinical Images: Small-bowel obstruction secondary to obturator hernia
    Fu-Zong Wu, Jer-Shyung Huang and Chia-Ling Chen
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2005; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092206

Letters

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    Pooh has an addiction issue: holiday reading
    Mary R. Wisely
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110-2086
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    The crime of mental illness
    Alistair Munro
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110-2130

Humanities

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    Books: Uplifting tales of life in the emergency department
    Brian Deady
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E870; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101486
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    Books: An uncompromising commitment to social justice
    Dennis Rosen
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E871; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100824
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    Books: Overly ambitious attempt to reform health care
    Lara Hazelton
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E872; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100853
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    Books: Antidepressants: placebos with side effects?
    Daniel Carlat
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E873; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100772
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    Poetry: (You are not who–what you used to be)
    Sara Ann Greenslit
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E874; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101440
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    Poetry: Room 209
    Sonia Sarkar
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E875; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101391
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    Poetry: (Plastics)
    Sara Ann Greenslit
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E876; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101619

Salon

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    Holiday reading: Hypoactive market desire disorder
    Alan Cassels
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2072; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101386

Holiday Reading

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    Quiz: Learning medicine through riddles
    S. Manikandan and N. Isai Vani
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E863-E864; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100466
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    Satire: The anemic maternal proxy and the seven resident stakeholders: a case for knowledge translation
    Sheila Strong
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E865-E866; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101568
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    Satire: Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training
    Kenneth A. Myers
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E867-E869; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100042
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    Essay: An intercultural and semi-confessional reflection on blood donation
    Sarah Shea and Sarah Giles
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2008-2009; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101448
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    Poetry: Declaration of conflict of interest
    Shane Neilson
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2010; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100672
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    Essay: À la carte medicine
    Vinay Prasad
    CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2011-2012; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101301
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