Canadian Medical Association Journal: 182 (18)

December 14, 2010; Volume 182,Issue 18

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CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1935;

Editorial

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The federal government’s abandonment of health
Paul C. Hébert and Matthew Stanbrook

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E809; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101207
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Governments, pay for smoking cessation
Erika D. Penz, Braden J. Manns, Paul C. Hébert and Matthew B. Stanbrook

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E810; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101140
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The federal government’s senseless policy change on tobacco warning labels
Matthew B. Stanbrook and Paul C. Hébert

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1939; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101583

Commentary

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Biomarkers in population-based studies
Dana Glei and Maxine Weinstein

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1943-1944; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101429

News

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Continuing drug shortages affect North American patients
Laura Eggertson

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E811-E812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3712
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Critics say UNICEF-Cadbury partnership is mere sugarwashing
Roger Collier

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E813-E814; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3720
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Australian physician advises advance planning for final exit
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E815-E816; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3710
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Police launch criminal investigation into actions of emergency department
Dan Lett

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E817-E818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3721
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Pan-Canadian strategy being developed to tackle mental health in prisons
Lauren Vogel

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E819-E820; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3722
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Irreconcilable choices in military medicine
Roger Collier

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E821-E822; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3723
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Legal challenges may imperil medicare, public health care advocates say
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E823-E824; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3727
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Europe develops action plan to address health workforce shortfall
Tiago Villanueva

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E825-E826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3708
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Canadian baby boomers shirk safe sex
Lauren Vogel

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E827-E828; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3729
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Briefly
Wayne Kondro

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E829-E830; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3732
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For the record
CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E831-E833; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3733
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Canada’s ehealth software “Tower of Babel”
Paul Christopher Webster

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1945-1946; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3717
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Republicans take aim at “Obamacare”
Cal Woodward

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1948-1950; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3725
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Unregulated hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinics assailed
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1950-1952; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3709

Research

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Effect of erythropoietin levels on mortality in old age: the Leiden 85-plus Study
Wendy P.J. den Elzen, Jorien M. Willems, Rudi G.J. Westendorp, Anton J.M. de Craen, Gerard Jan Blauw, Luigi Ferrucci, Willem J.J. Assendelft and Jacobijn Gussekloo

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1953-1958; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100347
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Adding monounsaturated fatty acids to a dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods in hypercholesterolemia
David J.A. Jenkins, Laura Chiavaroli, Julia M.W. Wong, Cyril Kendall, Gary F. Lewis, Edward Vidgen, Philip W. Connelly, Lawrence A. Leiter, Robert G. Josse and Benoît Lamarche

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1961-1967; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092128
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Low-dose hydrocortisone in patients with cirrhosis and septic shock: a randomized controlled trial
Yaseen M. Arabi, Abdulrahman Aljumah, Ousama Dabbagh, Hani M. Tamim, Asgar H. Rishu, Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem, Bandar Al Knawy, Ali H. Hajeer, Waleed Tamimi and Antoine Cherfan

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1971-1977; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090707
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Incidence of hospital admissions and severe outcomes during the first and second waves of pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Melissa Helferty, Julie Vachon, Jill Tarasuk, Rachel Rodin, John Spika and Louise Pelletier

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1981-1987; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100746

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Clinical Practice Guideline: Reducing the pain of childhood vaccination: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline
Anna Taddio, Mary Appleton, Robert Bortolussi, Christine Chambers, Vinita Dubey, Scott Halperin, Anita Hanrahan, Moshe Ipp, Donna Lockett, Noni MacDonald, Deana Midmer, Patricia Mousmanis, Valerie Palda, Karen Pielak, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Michael Rieder, Jeffrey Scott and Vibhuti Shah

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E843-E855; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101720
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Reducing the pain of childhood vaccination: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (summary)
Anna Taddio, Mary Appleton, Robert Bortolussi, Christine Chambers, Vinita Dubey, Scott Halperin, Anita Hanrahan, Moshe Ipp, Donna Lockett, Noni MacDonald, Deana Midmer, Patricia Mousmanis, Valerie Palda, Karen Pielak, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Michael Rieder, Jeffrey Scott and Vibhuti Shah

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1989-1995; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092048

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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a neuroimmunologic hypothesis
Rebecca E. Anglin, Patricia I. Rosebush and Michael F. Mazurek

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E834-E838; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091442
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AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care
Melissa C. Brouwers, Michelle E. Kho, George P. Browman, Jako S. Burgers, Francoise Cluzeau, Gene Feder, Béatrice Fervers, Ian D. Graham, Jeremy Grimshaw, Steven E. Hanna, Peter Littlejohns, Julie Makarski and Louise Zitzelsberger

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E839-E842; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090449
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Chronic aftershocks of an earthquake on the well-being of children in Haiti: violence, psychosocial health and slavery
Jhumka Gupta and Alpna Agrawal

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 1997-1999; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100526

Practice

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Clinical Images: Intestinal radiopacities in chronic renal failure
Roland Schmitt, Hermann Haller and Joachim Lotz

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E856; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091935
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Clinical Images: Academic branding: erythema ab igne and use of laptop computers
David Botten, Richard G.B. Langley and Amanda Webb

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E857; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091868
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Clinical Images: Hyperdense spleen after prolonged gold therapy
Tommaso Bartalena and Maria Francesca Rinaldi

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E858; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091962
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Clinical Images: Chronic cough: tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica
Chun-Chieh Huang and Chin-Chi Kuo

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E859; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091762
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Clinical Images: Lichen sclerosus in a radiated breast
Olga Vujovic

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E860; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091800
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Clinical Images: Percutaneous liver biopsy: a cause of hepatic portal venous gas
Uei Pua

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E861; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100325
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Clinical Images: Heterochromia of the scalp hair
Jianjun Qiao and Hong Fang

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092075
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Cases: Re-expansion pulmonary edema following thoracentesis
Rahil Kasmani, Farzan Irani, Kelechi Okoli and Vijay Mahajan

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2000-2002; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090672
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Five things to know about...: Emergency reversal of warfarin anticoagulation
Yulia Lin and Jeannie Callum

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2004; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100983
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Clinical Images: Small-bowel obstruction secondary to obturator hernia
Fu-Zong Wu, Jer-Shyung Huang and Chia-Ling Chen

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2005; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092206

Letters

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Pooh has an addiction issue: holiday reading
Mary R. Wisely

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110-2086
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The crime of mental illness
Alistair Munro

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110-2130

Humanities

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Books: Uplifting tales of life in the emergency department
Brian Deady

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E870; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101486
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Books: An uncompromising commitment to social justice
Dennis Rosen

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E871; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100824
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Books: Overly ambitious attempt to reform health care
Lara Hazelton

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E872; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100853
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Books: Antidepressants: placebos with side effects?
Daniel Carlat

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E873; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100772
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Poetry: (You are not who–what you used to be)
Sara Ann Greenslit

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E874; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101440
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Poetry: Room 209
Sonia Sarkar

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E875; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101391
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Poetry: (Plastics)
Sara Ann Greenslit

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E876; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101619

Salon

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Holiday reading: Hypoactive market desire disorder
Alan Cassels

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2072; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101386

Holiday Reading

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Quiz: Learning medicine through riddles
S. Manikandan and N. Isai Vani

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E863-E864; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100466
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Satire: The anemic maternal proxy and the seven resident stakeholders: a case for knowledge translation
Sheila Strong

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E865-E866; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101568
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Satire: Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training
Kenneth A. Myers

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E867-E869; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100042
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Essay: An intercultural and semi-confessional reflection on blood donation
Sarah Shea and Sarah Giles

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2008-2009; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101448
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Poetry: Declaration of conflict of interest
Shane Neilson

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2010; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.100672
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Essay: À la carte medicine
Vinay Prasad

CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) 2011-2012; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101301

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