Canadian Medical Association Journal

Highlights

   Highlights

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Editorial

   Access to treatment for multiple sclerosis must be based on science, not hope

Matthew B. Stanbrook and Paul C. Hébert
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Commentary

   Prognostic scoring in critically ill children: What to predict?

Martin C.J. Kneyber
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   Coordination, childhood weight gain and obesity

Scott M. Montgomery
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News

   Canadian hospitals make uneven strides in utilization of electronic health records

Paul Christopher Webster
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   Polio returns to Tajikistan

Roger Collier
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   European impasse over patients’ rights directive may be at an end

Tiago Villanueva
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   European probiotics industry fears regulations will scuttle market for health-promoting or disease-preventing foods

Lauren Vogel
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   G8 Summit: sorting out the supplicants

Paul Christopher Webster
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   Human rights group alleges Bush administration and physicians conducted illegal medical research on detainees

Nancy Benac
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   G8 Summit: a final test of credibility

Paul Christopher Webster
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   Critics demand change at reproductive health agency

Laura Eggertson
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   Former senior editor at The Lancet cries foul over firing for "gross misconduct"

Roger Collier
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   Super bug colonizations rise at McGill University Health Centre

Lauren Vogel
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   Canadians confused and conflicted over sun protection products

Lauren Vogel
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   Global standards for Alzheimer research under development

Elyse Skura
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   Portuguese-speaking African countries face shortages of doctors

Tiago Villanueva
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   Animal antibiotics under tougher United States scrutiny as consensus grows on "superbug" risk to humans

Cal Woodward
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   Drug mishap reporting system created for consumers

Lauren Vogel
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   For the record

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   Chiropractic clinic offered referral kickbacks

Yoni Freedhoff
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   Briefly

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   Homemade bombs and heavy urogenital injuries create new medical challenges

Cal Woodward and Laura Eggertson
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   Who you calling obese, Doc?

Roger Collier
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Research

   Newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for serious liver disease

Liane Porepa, Joel G. Ray, Paula Sanchez-Romeu, and Gillian L. Booth
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   Trajectories of relative weight and waist circumference among children with and without developmental coordination disorder

John Cairney, John Hay, Scott Veldhuizen, Cheryl Missiuna, Nadilein Mahlberg, and Brent E. Faught
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   Multicentre prospective validation of use of the Canadian C-Spine Rule by triage nurses in the emergency department

Ian G. Stiell, Catherine M. Clement, Annette O’Connor, Barbara Davies, Christine Leclair, Pamela Sheehan, Tamara Clavet, Christine Beland, Taryn MacKenzie, and George A. Wells
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   Daily estimation of the severity of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in critically ill children

Stéphane Leteurtre, Alain Duhamel, Bruno Grandbastien, François Proulx, Jacques Cotting, Ronald Gottesman, Ari Joffe, Bendicht Wagner, Philippe Hubert, Alain Martinot, Jacques Lacroix, and Francis Leclerc
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Review

   Simulation in surgical education

Vanessa N. Palter and Teodor P. Grantcharov
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Analysis

   The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: building a pan-Canadian research platform for disease prevention

Marilyn J. Borugian, Paula Robson, Isabel Fortier, Louise Parker, John McLaughlin, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Karine Bédard, Richard P. Gallagher, Sandra Sinclair, Vincent Ferretti, Heather Whelan, David Hoskin, and John D. Potter
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Practice

   Clinical Images: Rectal bezoars in children

Bryanne Minty and Len Kelly
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   Clinical Images: Multiple palmar pits and basal cell carcinomas

José Juan Pereyra-Rodríguez, José Bernabeu-Wittel, and Julián Conejo-Mir
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   Clinical Images: Sacral herpes zoster presenting as sciatica

Min-Hsiang Hung, Jinn-Rung Kuo, Kuo-Feng Huang, and Wen-Ching Wang
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   What is your call?: Headache, red eyes, blurred vision and hearing loss

Errol Wei’en Chan, Srinivasan Sanjay, and Benjamin Chong Ming Chang
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   Decisions: Oral allergy syndrome

Gordon Sussman, Arthur Sussman, and David Sussman
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   Clinical Images: Night blindness in primary biliary cirrhosis

Salman Waqar, Thomas Kersey, and Daniel Byles
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Letters

   Harassment from misguided mayoral candidate

Brian L. Simchison
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   The right to give blood

James E. Parker
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   The right to give blood

Greta R. Bauer
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   End of life

Robert Blanchard
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   Why can’t I get my veins unblocked in Canada?

Michael Barkhouse
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   Hear some evil, see some evil, report no evil

David Zitner
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Humanities

   Essay: Humanizing the hospital: Design lessons from a Finnish sanatorium

Diana Anderson
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   Poetry: Returns

Lydia Kang
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   Poetry: The view from the clinic

Shane Neilson
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   Books: The transformation of motherhood in Quebec

Paul Moorehead
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   Essay: "I have learned to see"

Stuart Kinmond
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   Essay: Humility and the practice of medicine: tasting humble pie

Harvey Max Chochinov
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Salon

   The Anfortas question

Michael Susmoy Sanatani
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