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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPediatric tuberculosis is important medically and indicative of a public health problem. Once infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, children are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease, including severe forms such...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn the philanthropic war front: Hey, Larry! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated US$105 million to the University of Washington to help create an Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to analyze and...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCoalition complaint: The Coalition of Associations for Foreign Trained Doctors has asked the Quebec Human Rights Commission to investigate whether immigrant physicians are being systematically discriminated against when...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPublished at www.cmaj.ca on July 4, 2007 As might have been expected, it was the unfamiliar that first struck anesthesiologist and Canadian Forces Lieutenant-Commander Dr. John Macdonald: the extraordinary heat; the...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background: Based on regional and anecdotal reports, there is concern that vitamin D-deficiency rickets is persistent in Canada despite guidelines for its prevention. We sought to determine the incidence and...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHip surgery: Senior citizens who have broken hips and are forced to wait longer than 1 day in hospital for surgery are 22% more likely to die than those treated within a day of admission, according to a Canadian...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe need was and is extensive: more people in this South American country suffer from a mental health condition than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Yet, Guyana may now be among the world's most progressive...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is no greater fallacy than the idea that Canada's system of socialized medicine is essential to our system of national values. Without it, Roy Romanow and others tell us, we would not be Canadian. This is...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedForeign credentials: The federal government has unveiled the first phase of its newly minted Foreign Credentials Referral Office, a $32.2 million, 5-year initiative created in the 2007 federal budget to help...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMumps misery: Some 460 confirmed cases of mumps have now been reported in 8 Canadian provinces in the ongoing outbreak of the acute viral infection, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. As of June 8, the...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn this issue, Ward and colleagues (1) report the findings of their study of the incidence of vitamin D-deficiency rickets in Canada. Through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program, they identified 104 confirmed...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHIV testing: The World Health Organization and UNAIDS (the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) have issued new guidance for HIV testing and counselling within member nations. Rather than client-initiated testing,...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed∞ See related article page 141 A 67-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, chronic cystitis and hematuria was given 2 units of packed red blood cells because of severe iron-deficiency anemia (hemoglobin 54 g/L). Although...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA 26-year-old man from India who had lived in France for 1 year experienced low back pain, fever and weight loss. After 3 weeks of it, he came to hospital. His medical history included kidney stones and alcohol abuse,...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSerology lab: Global giant GlaxoSmithKline will pump $50 million into an upgrade of its Laval, Que., facility, including construction of a serology lab in the vacant basement of the facility and the hiring and equipping...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe telephone changed the lives of patients and their doctors in Canada. The text below gives a memorable picture of the role that the telephone and the operator played in one doctor's home in a small town in the 1920s....
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNotice Readers are invited to submit brief remembrances of recently departed colleagues. Colourful writing is encouraged, but please limit your notice to 150 words. Send to pubs@cma.ca; fax 613 565-5471. Notice...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBurden of proof: Although studies have found no causal link between autism and childhood vaccines containing thimerosal, the parents of a 12-year-old Arizona girl have asked the US Court of Federal Claims to find that...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA private Toronto-area fertility clinic that is offering women the chance to freeze their eggs for a decade or more is opening up a new thread in the contentious debate over fertility treatments and technology. ESRM...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLower respiratory tract infection is a major cause of illness and death among the Inuit children of Nunavut. In peak years the attack rate of bronchiolitis among Inuit infants has reached 57% in some communities. (1) In...