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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPreviously published at www.cmaj.ca The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada's leading institution of innovation and research in global health, recently revealed that the Chair of its Board,...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMore influence: The Australian government has set aside A$58 million to create "lead clinician groups," at both the local and national level, which will provide doctors, nurses and other health professionals with more...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPublished at www.cmaj.ca on June 14 It's a trajectory that public health and nutrition advocates fear is becoming all too familiar: voluntary approaches that have little effect, followed by government regulatory...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWe thank Einarson (1) for her commentary on our study on the risk of spontaneous abortion associated with antidepressant use. (2) Although it is true that we cannot assess causality based on one observational study...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPreviously published at www.cmaj.ca DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091302 Vikram Tangri MD University of Western Ontario and London Health Sciences Center Department of Medicine London, Ont. The doctor during...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPeople living in Canada's poorest neighbourhoods are 37% more likely than affluent Canadians to suffer a heart attack, according to a report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Statistics...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedDepression among seniors: Nearly 45% of seniors living in residential care facilities, including long-term care and nursing homes, have either been diagnosed with depression or suffer from its symptoms, according to a...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIt may be a function of a growing lack of trust in physicians or merely a product of the ever-increasing demand for more professional accountability. Whatever the reason, a revalidation wave appears to be sweeping...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPublished at www.cmaj.ca on May 28 Alberta, already a leader in Canada in connecting health professionals to electronic information systems, is gearing-up to bring patients into the loop. And that, says the...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score uses clinical data to predict the short-term risk of acute myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization or death from any cause. It was...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: We established a program of research to improve the development, reporting and evaluation of practice guidelines. We assessed the construct validity of the items and user's manual in the [beta] version of...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPrescription charge exemptions: The list of long-term illnesses for which free prescriptions are provided in the United Kingdom should be expanded to include all health conditions that persist for at least six months...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedCancer home care: The Canadian Cancer Society is campaigning for more government funding to go toward home care for people with cancer. According to the society's latest statistics, 55% of deaths occur in the hospital,...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedRecognition of serious deficiencies in blood transfusion practices has led to greater scrutiny of transfusion medicine. Increasing attention is being paid not only to safety in the acquisition and processing of blood...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedFernando and Broadfoot raise interesting points with respect to the potential value of pharmacogenetic screening for prevention of severe adverse drug reactions as well as the possibility of a potential common...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding immunity: From understanding why the boss never catches the flu going around the office to creating more-effective vaccines against infections, the new Centre for Human Immunology in London, Ontario, is...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe great variability in the processes that different journals use to ask about and report authors' potential conflicts of interest creates confusion for authors, readers and the public. To help lessen this confusion,...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPublished at www.cmaj.ca on May 26 Regulators around the world should pull the type 2 diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia[R]) from the market and suspend a clinical trial that includes 34 sites in Canada, says Dr....
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedA five-year-old girl with sickle cell disease presented with a two-day history of left frontal headache and mild fever. There were no signs of toxicity, and the patient was hemodynamically stable. Her rectal temperature...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPreviously published at www.cmaj.ca When physicians and their patients understand different meanings for commonly used medical terms, there is real danger of miscommunication. Current use of the term "illness" is an...