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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers (HCWs) has evolved from the isolation precautions first implemented years ago for patients with communicable diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNotice Readers are invited to submit brief remembrances of recently departed colleagues. Colourful writing is encouraged, but please limit your notice to 150 worlds. Send to pubs@cma.ca; fax 613 565-5471. D'Amours,...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRofecoxib (Vioxx) ought to be allowed back on the market, concludes Health Canada's Expert Advisory Panel on the Safety of COX-2 Selective Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). After Merck & Co. withdrew...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNew faces: In June, Michael Decter stepped down as founding chairman of the Canada Health Council to pursue his interest in the environment. The council was set up nearly 3 years ago to oversee improvements to Canada's...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background: The natural course of onset of cigarette use has been conceptualized as progressing sequentially through 5 stages (preparation, trying, irregular use, regular use, nicotine-dependent smoking)....
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedShorter wait times: Median wait times for hip surgeries in British Columbia are down 15% to 19 weeks in 2005-06 compared with the previous year, while wait times for knee surgery are down 12% to 25.6 weeks. The province...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA recent issue of CMAJ mistakenly included a death notice for Dr. Archibald McNeill Johnson. We sincerely regret this error. REFERENCE (1.) Deaths. CMAJ 2006;174(13):1935. DOI:10.1503/cmaj.060824 In a recent News...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA Health Canada expert advisory panel says ibuprofen should go behind-the-counter at pharmacies due to new evidence showing that at prolonged high doses its risk of cardiovascular incident is comparable to prescription...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite being the third most important vector-borne diseases worldwide in terms of burden of disease, the leishmaniases are one of the so-called "neglected diseases." Since the massive humanitarian reconstruction...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEmily Carr: New Perspectives Curators Charles Hill, Ian Thom and Johanne Lamoureux National Gallery of Canada Until Sept. 4, 2006 Canadians embrace Emily Carr (1871-1945) for her vision of our country, her...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAIDS simmered for years in Africa before it was recognized in the United States in 1981 as an epidemic among homosexual men. Its origin is no longer a mystery. Thanks to the high science of gene sequencing and...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFlashback: The 20th anniversary of the Ontario doctors' strike over the province's ban on extra billing passed quietly last month. The Ontario Medical Association had labelled the legislation "an act of violence against...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA "pan-Canadian" approach for matching international medical graduates (IMGs) to residency positions in the nation's postgraduate medical training system has inched a step closer to reality as a result of reforms to the...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPhysician shortfall: Nearly 4 million Canadians, or 14.3% of the population, didn't have a regular physician in 2005, according to Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey. In the 2003 survey, 14% of Canadian...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlthough no intense pelvic symptoms were found during the physical exam, the CT scan showed a wedge-like hypodense area in the spleen (Fig. 1, arrow) consistent with acute splenic infarction. Results of a...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Salmeterol Multicenter Asthma Research Trial (SMART)1 reinforces important lessons regarding the appropriate use of long-acting ?-agonists. The trial was stopped early because of increased hazard of asthma,...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInvest in healthy kids: The Health Council of Canada is asking government to increase spending on childhood development and develop a pan-Canadian child and youth health strategy. A June 22 report indicates that 3% of...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Neuropathic pain, caused by various central and peripheral nerve disorders, is especially problematic because of its severity, chronicity and resistance to simple analgesics. The condition affects 2%-3% of...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAnxiety. It's been plaguing me recently, yet I can't really attribute it to anything new. Nothing has changed in my life--I continue to work hard, perhaps too hard, but that's not new. My marriage is sputtering,...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWeed killer and cancer: Canada's most popular weed killer, 2,4-D, is "persuasively linked" to cancer, neurological impairment and reproductive problems, according to a new study (Paediatrics and Child Health...