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- 1From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe World Health Organization (WHO) has extended a hearty "Good on ya, mate!" to Australia for its victory against tobacco marketing. The country's high court dismissed a legal challenge from the tobacco industry to...
- 2From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Limited data are available on adverse events among children admitted to hospital. The Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study was done to describe the epidemiology of adverse events among children in...
- 3From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the first diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction by electrocardiogram (ECG) dates back to 1920, its prognostic value has enjoyed little attention in the era of "time is muscle." Instead, various time-based...
- 4From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe World Medical Association (WMA) will hold an expert conference in Cape Town, South Africa, in December to explore possible revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki, a landmark set of ethical regulations that guide...
- 5From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedMedieval cartographers once depicted monsters and bogs on the borders of their maps, as if foraying into uncharted territories put one at risk of unimaginable and unpredictable consequences. It might be said that...
- 6From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe London 2012 Olympic Games are winding to a close, but thousands of health professionals at the event remain busy treating any and every form of ailment. There are certain health problems one expects to see among...
- 7From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedBeing in hospital is stressful enough, but according to a six-volume report that Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson's office has released, patients at several hospitals owned by Fairview Health Services in the...
- 8From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedPlanned Parenthood will dedicate US$3 million to offer more breast health services across the United States while also expanding education and outreach. The funding was received from more than 77 000 donors following...
- 9From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Few interventions have proven effective in reducing the overuse of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections. We evaluated the effect of DECISION+2, a shared decision-making training program, on the...
- 10From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe phrase "toilet technology" is something of an oxymoron. The flush toilet has not changed much in over two centuries. Microsoft Corp. cofounder Bill Gates hopes to spur innovation in toilet design to save lives in...
- 11From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe prevalence of colonic diverticulosis appears to be increasing throughout the world, probably because of changes in lifestyle. (1) It is common in developed countries and is slightly more common in the United States...
- 12From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedIt is difficult to imagine a more constricted federal role in health care, or a more stark confirmation of the government's intent to take an entirely hands-off approach to health care in Canada. But as sketched by...
- 13From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedLegal reform may be coming to the Australian state of Tasmania to prohibit the circumcision of minors except for "well-established religious or ethnicity motivated" reasons. The prohibition is among recommendations...
- 14From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedA previously healthy 69-year-old man presents to his primary care physician with a painful vesicular eruption of 24 hours' duration. He recalls that his 65-year-old brother had a similar rash one year earlier, which had...
- 15From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedOnly rarely does the incoming president of an association hope to make an imprimatur by serving as the voice of the disadvantaged and the stressed. But if Dr. Anna Reid has her way, by the time she steps off the...
- 16From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe Delhi Charter School in Louisiana is changing a policy that required girls suspected of being pregnant to take a pregnancy test. If they were pregnant, the girls were kicked out and offered home schooling...
- 17From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedSolidarity forever, as the adage goes, even for the nation's doctors. Fearing that the government of Ontario's recent unilateral changes in the fee schedules of its physicians is an indicator of future moves by other...
- 18From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedSeveral common skin conditions can mimic acne Acne is an inflammatory disorder of pilosebaceous units, with characteristic lesions including open (black) and closed (white) comedones, inflammatory papules, pustules,...
- 19From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedDrug shortages, a global problem affecting pharmacies and hospitals across Canada, have become frequent, largely unpredictable and widespread since mid2010. Occasional drug shortages are not new, but the number and...
- 20From: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Vol. 184, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedNosyk and colleagues (1) have analyzed data from the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) (2) in an attempt to ascertain cost-effectiveness of diacetylmorphine versus methadone among those "refractory to...