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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn abridged version of this article appeared in the Sept. 27, 2005, issue of CMAJ. Abstract Background: Absence from work after breast cancer diagnosis may be part of the burden of disease for women with cancer, but...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedSARS suit: An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that 2 lawsuits concerning Ontario's handling of the 2003 SARS outbreak can proceed. The lawsuits include a $600-million class action by nurse Andrea Williams, who...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedHope Weiler and colleagues noted that it was difficult to explain their observation that newborns with vitamin D deficiency were heavier and longer and had greater head circumferences than newborns with adequate vitamin....
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedA message in search of a method A different kind of care: the social pediatrics approach Gilles Julien Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2005 $24.95 208 pp ISBN 0-7735-2801-6 There's this spiky-haired kid...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedA Texas jury's decision to award US$253 million to a widow who sued pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. should help Canadians pursue their own lawsuits against the maker of rofecoxib (Vioxx), says a Canadian lawyer. On...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn abridged version of this article appeared in the Sept. 27, 2005, issue of CMAJ. Abstract Background: Although death rates are often used to monitor the quality of health care, in industrialized countries maternal...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn earlier report was published at www.cmaj.ca on Sept. 1, 2005. Canada dispatched ships loaded with medical and relief supplies, Red Cross volunteers, and a search-and-rescue team including emergency physicians to...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedLeon Adams and associates (1) rightly state that obesity is associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In particular, visceral adiposity is highly correlated with NAFLD, whereas the correlation with...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedPublished at www.cmaj.ca on Sept. 13, 2005. Emergency contraception (1) is just the latest example in a long list of medications that are being shifted from prescription only to over-the-counter (OTC) status. More...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedReason for posting: Palladone XL (hydromorphone hydrochloride) is a long-acting opioid for chronic pain relief in patients with persistent, moderate-to-severe pain. A recent pharmacokinetic study showed that co-ingestion...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAs the WHO was orchestrating a massive international effort to share influenza antiviral treatment in the developing world, Canada and the US decided not to create a common North American stockpile. Oseltamivir...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedCooper, Gardner E., Hamilton, Ont.; University of Toronto, 1940; general and orthopedic surgery; Captain, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps; chief of surgery, Hamilton Civic Hospitals (1959-81). Died Aug. 1, 2005, aged...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedGilbert Welch and colleagues have written an interesting essay contrasting continuous and categorical approaches to modelling the relation between exposure and health effects. (1) They suggest that assuming a continuous...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAs a budding health writer I was very excited to be attending my first press conference, convened to address avian influenza--such a sizzling topic that the briefing was held at the US embassy in Ottawa. I had, in a...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn error in the recent obituary of Dr. William Tatlow (1) was pointed out to us, as follows, by Dr. Joseph Stratford, a long-time friend and colleague of the late Dr. Tatlow. "[A]ll is fine until you come to the point...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBaranek PM, Deber RB, Williams AP. Almost home: reforming home and community care in Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2004. 340 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0-8020-8639-X Bordowitz G. The AIDS crisis is ridiculous and...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedDisease as idea Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history Jacalyn Duffin Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2005 299 pp $27.50 ISBN 0-8020-3805-0 Lovers and Livers is a compilation of lectures delivered in 2002...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedPhysician supply: Canada's total number of doctors has kept pace with population growth since the late 1990s, reports the Canadian Institute for Health Information. New data show a 5% increase in the number of...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe manager of your local grocery store can instantly determine how many kilos of Ida Red apples are still on the shelves, the use-before dates of every carton of soy milk, the total cash in the cash registers and the...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 173, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from malignant disease in Canada. Laboratory research suggests that statins may prevent the growth of colorectal cancer cell lines. (1) Design: This...