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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedWe read with interest the recent article by Leanne Ward and colleagues on the incidence of vitamin D-deficiency rickets among Canadian children.1 Using our laboratory database at the University Hospital of Verona, Italy,...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAdvances in combating cancer and promising avenues of research highlighted the lectures of 5 newly minted Gairdner International Award winners at a University of Toronto symposium Oct. 25-26. The culmination of a...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedSurvival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Sharon Moalem, with Jonathon Prince William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; 2007 267 pp. $32.95 ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4 I was...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedSuicide has often been called the North's quiet epidemic. It's become a leading cause of death, particularly among Aboriginal youths, in the Northwest Territories as rates skyrocketed over the past decade to the point...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without universal health care. While spending more per capita on health care than any other country, the United States ranked a dismal 37th in health care...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedLast night, as I sipped my favourite beer, sampled turkey curry and searched for conversation among strangers, I read for the first time the label on the can of beer I was holding. It stated that this particular product...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background: Canada's Neo Rhino Party, a joke political party created in 2006 as a successor to the Parti Rhinoceros, is planning a new regulation to repeal the law of gravity, which could have an important...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA 22-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes presented with a 10-year history of a yellow-red, telangiectatic plaque 7 cm in diameter with central atrophy on her left forearm (Figure 1). The edges of the plaque were slightly...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background: Concerns have been raised that parents may be reluctant to have their daughters receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, because of a belief that doing so might be interpreted as condoning...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe Canada Health Act proscribes extra billing for "medically necessary" services; however, the meaning of this crucial phrase remains obscure and its interpretation is clouded by the societal trend to medicalize all...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedFor Americans, the choice is stark: put a Democrat in the White House in next year's presidential election and major health care reform will likely ensue, perhaps even an historic mandate to insure all residents. Elect a...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn a recent issue of CMAJ(2007;177: 858), there is an advertisement for yet another testosterone product, Testim. This advertisement pictures a scantily clad young woman pressing her breasts against the windshield of a...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Norman Doidge Penguin Group, 2007 448 pp. $31.00 ISBN: 978-0-670-03830-5 Patients who read this popular book will have some...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEvidence-Based Medicine in Sherlock Holmes' Footsteps Jorgen Nordenstorm Blackwell Publishing 91 pp $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-4051-5713-1 Evidence-Based Medicine in Sherlock Holmes' Footsteps is useful; not particularly...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedMy primary concern about the commentary on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil by Abby Lippman and colleagues (1) is that the full burden of disease prevented by Gardasil is overlooked. Clinical trials have shown...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedHoping to improve treatment rates for kala-azar, one of the world's deadliest parasitic diseases, which infects as many as 300 000 people and claims as many as 20 000 lives in India annually, the government has...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA recent CMAJarticle1 referred to the following website www.agreecollaboration .org, which is no longer being updated. The appropriate website for readers to consult is www.agreetrust.org. Similarly, the footnote to...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe Fifth Vial Michael Palmer St. Martin's Press; 2007 372 pp. $31.95 ISBN: 978-0-312-34351-4 As if we didn't have enough to worry about just watching the news, along comes Michael Palmer's 12th medical thriller to get...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedFor most of us the holiday season is a time of good cheer--a time for feasts and merrymaking and good old-fashioned unbridled consumerism. But for senior medical students it is also a time of hand wringing and sleepless...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedHunger. In Canada it's tough to diagnose, but it is a pervasive factor in the health of thousands across the country. Every month, some 753 000 Canadians depend on charitable handouts from food banks to stave off hunger...