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Table of Contents

December 18, 2017; Volume 189,Issue 50

Research

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    Probiotic capsules and xylitol chewing gum to manage symptoms of pharyngitis: a randomized controlled factorial trial
    Paul Little, Beth Stuart, Zoe Wingrove, Mark Mullee, Tammy Thomas, Sophie Johnson, Gerry Leydon, Samantha Richards-Hall, Ian Williamson, Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu and Michael Moore
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1543-E1550; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170599

Commentary

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    Health Services: We need to mandate drug cost transparency on electronic medical records
    Iris Gorfinkel and Joel Lexchin
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1541-E1542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171070

Review

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    Sepsis: Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency: a primer for clinicians
    Catherine M. Biggs, Elie Haddad, Thomas B. Issekutz, Chaim M. Roifman and Stuart E. Turvey
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1551-E1557; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170561

Practice

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    Cases: Sepsis: Risks of novel therapeutics: gonococcemia in an immune-suppressed patient receiving eculizumab
    Aditi Khandelwal, Julie K. Wright, Katerina Pavenski and Linda R. Taggart
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1558-E1560; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170508
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    Clinical Images: Calcific tendinitis of the gluteus maximus of a 53-year-old woman
    Kun Huang, Darra Murphy and Natasha Dehghan
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1561; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171308

Humanities

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    Special report: Medical sensations: experience doctoring
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1562-E1564; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171336

Coda

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    Health Services: Public health in the 21st century: Beyond health care: the other determinants of health
    Trevor Hancock
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1571; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171419

News

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    Viral misinformation threatens public health
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5536
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    An outpatient “evolution” in orthopedic surgery
    Paul Webster
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1568; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5534
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    Medical schools addressing student anxiety, burnout and depression
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1569-E1570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5516

Letters

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    The Canadian Medical Association should support a medical access stream for cannabis
    Andrew B. Cooper
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1565; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733488
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    Updating our language around substance use disorders
    Edward Xie, Samantha Green, Nitasha Puri and Hasan Sheikh
    CMAJ December 18, 2017 189 (50) E1566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733490
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  • We need to mandate drug cost transparency on electronic medical records
  • Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency: a primer for clinicians
  • Risks of novel therapeutics: gonococcemia in an immune-suppressed patient receiving eculizumab
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