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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Previous studies of differences in mental health care associated with children's sociodemographic status have focused on access to community care. We examined differences associated with visits to the...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedHepatitis plan: The World Health Organization has unveiled a four-pronged strategy to combat viral hepatitis, which affects 500 million people worldwide and is related to deaths of one million people annually. WHO's...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedCompared to nonveterans, men who served in the military are more likely to have two or more chronic conditions, experience work limitations and suffer from serious psychological distress, according to the National...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedLike all working stiffs, doctors have mouths to feed and bills to pay. And green fees at golf courses aren't getting any cheaper. Though some might argue that many doctors, specialists in particular, have incomes...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedWhen we think of medical students learning, we think of them listening to lectures and taking reams of notes. Not so for many visually inspired learners. A recent survey of medical students indicated that more than 50%...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTexas health: Texas ranks dead last in the United States on quality of health care, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Based...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIs spanking wrong? Clearly, hitting anyone in anger or when losing an argument is bad behaviour. To do this to children sets a bad example and may only teach them that violence is a means to getting their own way. But...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAs part of a historic health care fraud settlement, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) will pay US$ 3 billion for criminal and civil misdeeds, including misbranding of drugs, failure to report safety data and suspect...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA 59-year-old man presented because of a swollen, numb and deformed right foot, with a 2-month history of a large plantar ulcer. He reported severe sensory loss in his feet and tingling in both legs, as well as...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedPolitical paradoxes: The United States Supreme Court ruling to uphold President Barack Obama's overhaul of the American health care system will have the paradoxical effect of leaving millions more people without access...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA move toward pan-Canadian bulk purchasing of generic drugs, nation-wide adoption of heart disease and foot ulcer guidelines, interprovincial sharing of health human resource information and an expansion of team-based...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedSome things are easier to measure than others. Want to check your temperature? Grab a thermometer. Want to know your weight? Jump on a scale. Want to gauge how much your spouse actually likes your new toupee? That's a...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedForget Monday Night Football. For former National Football League (NFL) players, the latest game in town appears to be weekly concussion litigation. So prolific have concussion lawsuits become that as of June 14, there...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedNearly one in five older United States residents has a mental health or substance abuse problem and the country's health care workforce is ill-equipped to provide adequate care for this population, according to the...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAxed benefits: American employers are increasingly contemplating the discontinuation of employee health benefit plans as insurance costs rise, according to a survey by Deloitte Consulting LLP. The survey of 330...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedCostly mistakes: Preventable mistakes in acute care settings are costing Canada nearly $400 million a year, according to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. And that doesn't include post-discharge costs and loss of...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedMost of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who die each year from natural causes spend their final days under the care of family doctors and nurses. Many experts in end-of-life care question whether these caregivers...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedReporting abuse: Doctors in the United Kingdom are being encouraged to report suspected cases of child abuse among patients, which many physicians are leery of for fear of reprisal by angry parents. The General Medical...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEbola in Uganda: More than 30 people are suspected to have been infected with the Ebola virus in Western Uganda, and about half of them have died. The outbreak is in Kagadi, a town in the country's Kibaale District....
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedOver-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin Beacon Press; 2011. In the interest of full disclosure, I was aware this book was coming long...