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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedIsotope production alternatives: The federal government has announced that four institutions--Canadian Light Source Inc., Advanced Cyclotron Systems Inc., Tri-University Meson Facility and Prairie Isotope Production...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedThere is no need for Canada to establish an oversight agency with the authority to police scientific misconduct, concludes a report by the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on research integrity. Rather, a...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedIn the letter "Clinical guidelines may need ethical component," (1) the first author's name was misspelled. The name should have appeared as W. Gottgens-Jansen. CMAJ regrests any inconvenience this error may have...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedIt's as if basketball, football and soccer games were being played on the same surface, simultaneously. Dr. Frances Collins, director of the United States National Institutes of Health, called it complex and...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedPreviously published at www.cmaj.ca DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.101399 Shane Neilson MD Family physician Guelph, Ont. Being on call for dead men Dead men call. I tell them the most important thing, wisdom dangling...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedLighter pockets: The average employee in the United States will have to cough up $US4386 in 2011 to cover his or her health care insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs such as copayments and deductibles, according...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedThere is a "paradigm shift" occurring within the global pharmaceutical industry as a consequence of demographic, economic and clinical trends, Switzerland-based Novartis AG Chief Executive Officer Joe Jimenez said in a...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedFor now, rely on Bill Gates. Delegates to a special World Health Summit session on "innovative financing mechanisms" were agreed that there is a desperate need to loosen the purse strings of governments, corporations...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedHanley and colleagues have written an excellent article. (1) Further, vitamin D and receptors have been increasingly implicated in the pathology of cognition and mental illness. Vitamin D activates receptors on neurons...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedWith the increased understanding of the effects of vitamin D on the body and the growing evidence that people living in northern climes have inadequate levels of vitamin D during the winter months, I wondered whether I...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedChelation cures "dangerously misleading": Eight companies that sell chelation "miracle cures" to treat everything from autism to heart conditions were warned on Oct. 14 by the United States Food and Drug Administration...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedThere's no question that it is very much the neglected child of the global health scene. In fact, in the US$22-billion-per-year industry of global health programming, there is nary an international initiative aimed at...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedGeneric drug plan scrapped: The United Kingdom government has scrapped a plan to force pharmacists to offer patients generic drugs instead of the branded drugs prescribed by their doctors. The plan was proposed to save...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedAlthough I don't have the expertise to take a position in the debate about chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, Stanbrook and Hebert's aside about the common finding of venous stenosis in patients receiving...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedCinemeducation: a comprehensive guide to using film in medical education Matthew Alexander, Patricia Lenahan and Anna Pavlov, editors Radcliffe; 2006. For several decades, medical educators have used film to...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedOld-school pedagogues must be cringing. The Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and panel interviews dispatched to the dustbins of medical school history? Spaces set aside for those trained in the humanities? Have...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Comprehensive evaluations of the nutritional parameters associated with length of hospital stay are lacking. We investigated the association between malnutrition and length of hospital stay in a cohort of...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedThe small market for drugs used to treat rare diseases often makes the drugs extremely expensive. Consequently, many pharmaceutical companies may stop manufacturing these drugs or may not initiate research and...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedPreviously published at www.cmaj.ca 'Stat consult for 55-year-old white female in room 12, agitated patient throwing food trays at nursing staff," reads the text message on my pager. I'm disappointed. It's six...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 182, Issue 17) Peer-ReviewedAlthough osteoporosis has been documented for many years, the disease and the fractures that arise were commonly viewed as inevitable consequences of the aging process. The publication by the World Health Organization...