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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedUniversity of Toronto faculty and students are breaking through the stigma of mental health and HIV by enhancing services for HIV-positive people in Namibia. Members of 11 faculties at the University of Toronto...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFirst described in 1918 by Jepps and Dobell, Dientamoeba fragilis is a binucleated, unflagellated protozoan related to the trichomonads, 1 readily identified in stool specimens by means of routine iron-hematoxylin...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedKidney transplantation in Canada is limited by the availability of organs, not by financial constraints. Inherent in transplantation is the ethical tension of allocating a scarce resource. Every new patient placed on a...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOur patient was not febrile, which is often the case for septic elderly patients (Am J Med 1996;100:65-70), but blood tests revealed leukocytosis (16.2 x [10.sup.9]/L; normal 4.0-10.0 x [10.sup.9]/L) and an elevated...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background: In a universal, public health care system, access to kidney transplantation should not be influenced by residence location. We determined the likelihood of kidney transplantation from deceased...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAt its core lies the simple proposition that outcome matters more than style. Of course, some would argue style significantly impacts on outcome and when the end product is supposed to be a physician who's adequately...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAs part of the federal government's commitment to renew and strengthen public health across Canada, 6 National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCs) have recently been established. Their purpose is to make...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe CMAJ Governance Review Panel, formed in March 2006 to "review the CMAJ's governance structure and to provide objective recommendations to further the CMAJ's continued commitment to editorial independence and...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe regulatory approval of memantine for use in the symptomatic treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease has led to high hopes among patients and their families. However, many physicians are still unsure about...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background: Before the widespread use of vaccine, mumps was the most common cause of viral meningitis (up to 10% of mumps infections). Vaccination programs have resulted in a drop of more than 99% in the...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAddah, Sebastian K., Mississauga, Ont.; University of Alberta, 1972. Died June 29, 2006, aged 61. Blank, Tibor, Brantford, Ont.; Semmelweis Orvostudomanyi Egyetem, Budapest, 1952, obstetrics and gynecology. Died July...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn the last decade, mumps outbreaks have occurred in various countries: a sustained outbreak in the United Kingdom, (1) a large one in the American Midwest, (2) and Canadian outbreaks in Nova Scotia (2005), (3) Alberta...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedStephen Hwang, in his commentary on homelessness and harm reduction, (1) notes the severe limitations of the study by Tiina Podymow and colleagues, (2) including the small number of subjects and the unreliability of...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBucking a trend that has seen most countries significantly bolster their physician ranks over the past 15 years, Canada continues to have one of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) lowest...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedI used to be quite secure (some might say smug) in my knowledge that I had never faced a College complaint. I prided myself on this. I thought it was representative of the kind of medicine I practised, good medicine,...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis patient, a smoker with cervical spondylotic myeloradiculopathy, had required a C4-C5 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with a tricortical autograft harvested with a sagittal saw and osteotome from her left...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCall Me Doctor Shane Neilson Pottersfield Press; 2006 180 pp $16.95 ISBN 1-8955900-78-6 Call Me Doctor is a relevant read for young medical professionals, candidly describing personal challenges faced by the author,...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHep C compensation: Eight years after its initial settlement, the federal government has set aside nearly $1 billion to compensate the estimated 5500 people who were infected with hepatitis C from tainted blood before...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Evidence suggests that damage to human sperm DNA might adversely affect reproductive outcomes and that the spermatozoa of infertile men possess substantially more sperm DNA damage than do the spermatozoa of...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSome risks of the traditional NSAIDs were well known before the development of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors (coxibs). Sixteen thousand deaths a year in the United States and 1900 a year in Canada were...