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Table of Contents

December 13, 2011; Volume 183,Issue 18

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2075;

Editorial

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    Food in Canada: Eat at your own risk
    Ken Flegel, Noni E. MacDonald, Jane Coutts, Paul C. Hébert and Matthew B. Stanbrook
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110453
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    Can Canada get on with national pharmacare already?
    Matthew B. Stanbrook, Paul C. Hébert, Jane Coutts, Noni E. MacDonald and Ken Flegel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1275; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110643
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    Being smarter with smartphones
    Daniel Rosenfield, Paul C. Hébert, Matthew B. Stanbrook, Noni E. MacDonald and Ken Flegel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110524
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    Personalized medicine: a windfall for science, but what about patients?
    George Browman, Paul C. Hébert, Jane Coutts, With editorial advisory team, Matthew B. Stanbrook, Ken Flegel and Noni E. MacDonald
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1277; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110607
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    No regulatory double standard for natural health products
    Noni E. MacDonald, Stuart MacLeod, Matthew B. Stanbrook, Paul C. Hébert, with editorial advisory team members, Ken Flegel and Daniel Rosenfield
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2079; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111739

Commentary

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    Risk of venous thromboembolism with oral contraceptives
    Susan Solymoss
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1278-E1279; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111614
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    Improving primary health care delivery: still waiting for the magic bullet
    Tim Wilson
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1280; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111673
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    Could parenting programs lead to lower health care costs in future generations?
    Sarah Stewart-Brown
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2083-2084; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111754
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    Habit or addiction: the critical tension in deciding who should enforce hospital smoke-free policies
    Sharon Lawn
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2085-2086; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111579

News

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    Learning to retire gracefully
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1282; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4047
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    Muddling thru models
    Paul Christopher Webster
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1283-E1284; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4042
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    National plan for clinical guidelines would elevate quality of care, experts say
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1285-E1286; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4043
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    The changing face of family medicine
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1287-E1288; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4036
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    A comprehensive view of focused practices
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1289-E1290; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4040
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    Potential pitfalls of “specialized” primary care
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1291-E1292; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4044
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    New network created to assess drug safety
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1293-E1294; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4045
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    The practicality of practice guidelines
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1295-E1296; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4048
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    Family medicine’s obligation to society
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1297-E1298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4049
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    Provinces to support national clinical guidelines strategy
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1299-E1300; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4050
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    Busting myths about guidelines
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1301-E1302; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4051
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    WHO mulls phase out of vaccine linked to polio outbreaks
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1303-E1304; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4027
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    Paternal depression often unrecognised
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1305-E1306; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4060
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    Medical waste-management practices vary across Canada
    Erin Walkinshaw
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1307-E1308; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4032
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    Too much of a good thing?
    Erin Walkinshaw
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1309-E1310; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4033
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    Briefly
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1311-E1313; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4057
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    For the record
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1314-E1318; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4056
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    Dying a “good death”
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2089-2090; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4059
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    Whole again: the practice of foreskin restoration
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2092-2093; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4009

Research

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    Higher risk of venous thrombosis associated with drospirenone-containing oral contraceptives: a population-based cohort study
    Naomi Gronich, Idit Lavi and Gad Rennert
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1319-E1325; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110463
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    Effectiveness of a quality-improvement program in improving management of primary care practices
    Joachim Szecsenyi, Stephen Campbell, Bjoern Broge, Gunter Laux, Sara Willms, Michel Wensing and Katja Goetz
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1326-E1333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110412
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    A qualitative investigation of smoke-free policies on hospital property
    Annette S.H. Schultz, Barry Finegan, Candace I.J. Nykiforuk and Margaret A. Kvern
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1334-E1344; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110235
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    Incidence of bleeding from gastroduodenal ulcers in patients with end-stage renal disease receiving hemodialysis
    Jiing-Chyuan Luo, Hsin-Bang Leu, Kuang-Wei Huang, Chin-Chou Huang, Ming-Chih Hou, Han-Chieh Lin, Fa-Yauh Lee and Shou-Dong Lee
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1345-E1351; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110299
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    Childhood aggression, withdrawal and likeability, and the use of health care later: a longitudinal study
    Caroline E. Temcheff, Lisa A. Serbin, Alexa Martin-Storey, Dale M. Stack, Paul Hastings, Jane Ledingham and Alex E. Schwartzman
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2095-2101; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091830

Review

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    Breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer
    Jennica Platt, Nancy Baxter and Toni Zhong
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2109-2116; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110513

Practice

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    Clinical Images: Roth spots in chronic myelogenous leukemia
    Ronak K. Kapadia and Jeffrey H. Steeves
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100561
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    Cases: Tinnitus: identifying the ominous causes
    Anne Elizabeth Conlin, Emad Massoud and Eric Versnick
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2125-2128; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091521
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    Decisions: Preventing fractures in postmenopausal women: how to assess risk
    Vincent Fung and David Kendler
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2129-2131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101054
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    Five things to know about...: Imaging in urolithiasis
    Peggy Yen and Mark O. Baerlocher
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101638
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    Clincal Images: Foster Kennedy syndrome: papilledema in one eye with optic atrophy in the other eye
    Natalia Pastora-Salvador and Jesus Peralta-Calvo
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2135; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101937
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    Clinical shorts
    Diane Kelsall
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2137; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111921

100 Years

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    Looking Back: Skill, drive and luck: the discovery and development of heparin
    Richard Norman
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2139-2140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111795
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    Looking Forward: Touch
    Ameer Farooq
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2141-2142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111781

Letters

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    Spontaneous abortion and NSAIDs
    Christine A. Clark, Karen A. Spitzer, Carl A. Laskin and Gideon Koren
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111-2092
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    The authors respond
    Anick Bérard and Odile Sheehy
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2145-2147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111-2093
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    Childhood aggression: response to commentary
    Caroline E. Temcheff
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111-2100

Correction

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    Author affiliations
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111-2101

Holiday Reading

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    Research of a holiday kind: Elevators or stairs?
    Sachin Shah, Michael O’Byrne, Merne Wilson and Thomas Wilson
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1353-E1355; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110961
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    Department of Advice: The art of presenting
    Daniel Rosenfield, Andrew Smaggus and Allan Detsky
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1356-E1358; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110935
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    Satire: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the actuaries”
    Alan Cassels
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) E1359-E1360; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111770
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    Research of the Holiday Kind: Tabulating Ingestion of Mocha Solution (TIMS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study
    Gregory Staios, Waqas U. Khan, Lina Chiuccariello, Laurie H. Sellings, Kim De Sousa, Shan Wang, Steven Lo and Alexander K. Elkader
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2149-2150; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111648
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    Department of Advice: How to ensure that you never get asked to present at rounds again
    Nick Kates
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2151-2152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111667
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    In other words: Petit manuel de traduction à l’usage des enfants mourants
    Claude Cyr
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110785
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    In other words: Holiday reading: thanks and more goodies online
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111782

Salon

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    Addressing the social causes of poor health is integral to practising good medicine
    Anne Andermann
    CMAJ December 13, 2011 183 (18) 2196; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111096
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