CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal articles from August 2005

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal archives from August 2005

Private medical care comes to Canada/La medecine privee fait son entree au Canada.
August 2, 2005... The Supreme Court's decision to strike down Quebec's laws prohibiting commerce in private health insurance should not be narrowly interpreted. By logical (and perhaps legal) extension, provincial laws that effectively prohibit physicians from...

Treatment for otitis media.(Letters/Correspondance)
August 2, 2005... It is a pity that the otherwise superb paper by Nicole Le Saux and associates (1) is marred by some mangled syntax. If after reading a sentence 3 times you are still uncertain that you have understood it correctly, then the sentence is badly...

Guidelines for treating acute otitis media.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 2, 2005... In a recent commentary, R.A.M.J. Damoiseaux (1) misquotes the guideline for the treatment of otitis media that has been endorsed by the Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario...

HRT and antidepressants.(Letters/Correspondance)(hormone replacement therapy)
August 2, 2005... Roger McIntyre and associates (1) discuss reciprocal relationships between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and antidepressant treatment. Although some women experience significant mood changes related to changes in estrogen levels at...

Standards for pharmaceutical advertising in Canada.(Letters/Correspondance)
August 2, 2005... Richelle Cooper and David Schriger (1) report their analysis of original research cited in pharmaceutical advertisements appearing in medical journals published in the United States. However, the standards for advertisements in US medical...

Time-dependent analysis in CHF follow-up.(Letters/Correspondance)
August 2, 2005... Justin Ezekowitz and colleagues (1) have concluded that patients with congestive heart failure who are followed by specialists and family physicians (FPs) experience better survival than patients who are followed by FPs alone; however, their...

Corrections.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
August 2, 2005... The DOI attached to a recent News article (1) should have read 10.1503 /cmaj.050548. Reference (1.) Chene C. Ads pressure Ontario to butt out in retail locations. CMAJ 2005;172(12):1544. DOI:10.1503/cmaj.050835 The DOI attached to...

One-third of panel on breast implants declares conflict.(Regulatory Approval)
August 2, 2005... Three of the 9-member Health Canada advisory panel studying silicone breast implants were paid advisers to one of the 2 companies seeking to have their medical devices reinstated in Canada or had expenses paid by a company at a seminar or...

Federal legislation to limit bulk drug exports.(Pharmaceutical Industry)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Published at www.cmaj.ca on June 30, 2005. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh will introduce legislation this fall to amend the Food and Drugs Act, prohibiting the bulk export of pharmaceuticals from Canada when the federal government is aware...

Gunshot wound reporting mandatory in Ontario.(Privacy Issues)
August 2, 2005... Ontario's hospitals will soon assume the mantle of Neighbourhood Watch as the province follows the lead of 45 American states to become the first Canadian jurisdiction with mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds. Under the legislation,...

Smoke, not fire.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Smoke, not fire: Canada is the first country to implement a national standard to reduce the fire risk of cigarettes. Under the Cigarette Ignition Propensity Regulations all cigarettes manufactured or imported for sale in Canada after Oct. 1,...

Allergy info.(causes of food allergies )(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Allergy info: A 9-pamphlet series on the most common food allergies was recently released by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (go to publications at www.inspection.gc.ca). The pamphlets provide basic information as well as advice on avoiding...

Olanzapine case.(medication error)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Olanzapine case: Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to pay US$690 million to settle 5000 claims related to adverse effects of olanzapine (Zyprexa), an atypical antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Statements...

African-Americans' heart drug.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... African-Americans' heart drug: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug ever intended for a racial group, African-Americans. BiDil is a combination of 2 older generic vasodilators, hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate. A...

NB med school.(New Brunswick )(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... NB med school: New Brunswick may have a medical school within 5 years. The University of New Brunswick in Saint John is negotiating the set-up of a program with the University of Sherbrooke Medical School in Quebec. The goal is to graduate...

Lassa fever vaccine.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Lassa fever vaccine: A team of US and Canadian scientists has developed a vaccine that fully protects nonhuman primates from experimental infection with lethal doses of Lassa virus. The hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus is endemic in...

Newborn mortality.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Newborn mortality: There are an estimated 4 million neonatal deaths (deaths in the first 4 weeks of life) worldwide annually. Almost all of these (97%) occur in very poor countries without national vital statistics. A recent report by Lawn and...

Sunscreens in melanoma and skin cancer prevention.(Sunscreen Protection)
August 2, 2005... Skin cancers are the most common form of malignant disease in white populations worldwide. Although the incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma is relatively low (Box 1), almost 15% of cases are fatal. Squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell...

Cancer therapy finds a solid target.(Science And Medicine)
August 2, 2005... Most molecular targets for treating cancer prove to be busts. Broadly applicable anticancer therapies have been particularly difficult to develop because of the multiplicity of genetic mutations in a cancer cell: target one mutation and another...

Melena: a rare presentation of childhood Burkitt's lymphoma.(Teaching Case Report)
August 2, 2005... THE CASE: A 10-year-old previously well boy presented with a 5-day history of constant epigastric abdominal pain not associated with meals. He had had 3 melena stools and 2 episodes of nonbilious, non-bloody emesis. He reported no NSAID use,...

Vaccination boosts adult immunity to varicella zoster virus.(Public Health)
August 2, 2005... Background and epidemiology: The recently published results of the large, randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trial of the Shingles Prevention Study (1) provide compelling evidence of the effectiveness of an investigational, highly...

Is there merit in treating gestational diabetes mellitus?(In the Literature)
August 2, 2005... Crowther CA, Hiller JE, Moss JR, McPhee AJ, Jeffries WS, Robinson JS; Australian Carbohydrate Intolerance Study in Pregnant Women (ACHOIS) Trial Group. Effect of treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus on pregnancy outcomes. N Engl J Med...

A thin 43-year-old woman with gross hematuria.(Clinical Vistas)
August 2, 2005... A 43-year-old woman visited our internal medicine service for evaluation of painless gross hematuria of 2 months' duration. She was a nonsmoker with no significant medical history, abdominal trauma or recurrent urinary tract infection. Her body...

Effectiveness of the antenatal psychosocial health assessment (ALPHA) form in detecting psychosocial concerns: a randomized controlled trial.(Research/Recherche)
August 2, 2005... Abstract Background: A pregnant woman's psychological health is a significant predictor of postpartum outcomes. The Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA) form incorporates 15 risk factors associated with poor postpartum outcomes...

Risk of hypertension and reduced kidney function after acute gastroenteritis from bacteria-contaminated drinking water.(Research/Recherche)
August 2, 2005... Abstract Background: The long-term health consequences of acute bacterial gastroenteritis remain uncertain. We studied the risk of hypertension and reduced kidney function after an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis due to contamination of...

Assessing for psychosocial morbidity in pregnant women.(Commentary/Commentaire)
August 2, 2005... In recent years an increasing number of investigators have supported routine antenatal and postnatal screening for psychological distress or depression. (1,2) Performing antenatal screening is reasonable since we know that postnatal mood...

Supreme Court slaps for-sale sign on medicare.(Commentary/Commentaire)
August 2, 2005... In 1857 the US Supreme Court issued its now-infamous Dred Scott judgment, decreeing that the constitutional guarantee of equal treatment under the law did not apply to slaves. The decision by Canada's Supreme Court on June 9, 2005, to permit...

The Chaoulli challenge: getting a grip on waiting lists.(Commentary/Commentaire)
August 2, 2005... The vigorous reaction sparked by the Supreme Court's decision on June 9, 2005, in the case of Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General)--to permit private health insurance in Quebec (1)--gives reason for hope that the court may have resuscitated...

The private sector in the English NHS: from pariah to saviour in under a decade.(Commentary/Commentaire)(Column)
August 2, 2005... I must make it clear that I am writing about the NHS in England only. Health is a "devolved" issue, and the health services in the 4 countries of the United Kingdom are rapidly diverging. Until recently the private sector played an...

Physicians, it's in your court now.(Viewpoint)
August 2, 2005... In any debate over private versus public health care, physicians have to play a central role. It is they who provide most of the services. But are they also part of the problem? In these pages, Steven Lewis argues that the profession has failed...

Doctors put patients first in health care debate.(Viewpoint)
August 2, 2005... It is truly unfortunate that Steven Lewis' misguided and misleading commentary (1) comes at such a critical point in the history of medicare in this country. While I welcome his call to the medical profession to "rise to the challenge of...

Malnutrition and health in developing countries.
August 2, 2005... Abstract MALNUTRITION, WITH ITS 2 CONSTITUENTS of protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, continues to be a major health burden in developing countries. It is globally the most important risk factor for illness and...

So many books, so little time.(The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?)(Book Review)
August 2, 2005... So many books, so little time The doctor in literature: satisfaction or resentment? Solomon Posen Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing; 2005 298 pp $71.50 (paper) ISBN 1-85775-609-6 At the risk of being banal, let me reiterate...

Retrospective on nursing.
August 2, 2005... A caring profession: centuries of nursing in Canada Christina Bates, Principal Curator Canadian Museum of Civilization Gatineau, Quebec June 17, 2005-Sept. 4, 2006 When the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) announced...

Dr. SpongeBob.(Room for a view)
August 2, 2005... A developmental pediatrician I know likes to joke that I probably have an undiagnosed case of autism. I am not autistic--I don 't walk on tippy-toes or get hypnotized by Wheel of Fortune ,and I do make eye contact--but it 's a nearer thing...

Deaths/Necrologie.
August 2, 2005... Avery, John F.G., Vancouver; University of Toronto, 1938. Died Mar. 14, 2005, aged 89. Beazley, Gerald P., Toronto; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1941. Died Feb. 14, 2005, aged 86. Bertrand, Norris R., Ottawa; University of...

Query.(healthcare)(Column)
August 2, 2005... Our little city is becoming a doctor ghost town. It started with Dr. Angry. It was inevitable: he was unhappy about everything. A pretext presented itself: the hospital asked him to finish his charts, which were piled into tottering stacks...

Genomics and economics.(Editorial)
August 16, 2005... It has always been difficult for medical practice to move in lockstep with medical science: the pace of discovery, the rapid translation of new knowledge into innovative technologies and the flood of data that washes over medical practitioners...

Climate change and health.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... In the Feb. 15 issue of CMAJ, the lead editorial (1) and a commentary by Sari Kovats and Andrew Haines (2) refer to "global average surface air temperature" and "global average surface temperature" respectively. It appears that this is a key...

Choice of antihypertensives after acute ischemic stroke.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... Andrea Semplicini and Lorenzo Calo address the thorny issue of managing hypertension in the setting of acute ischemic stroke. (1) They emphasize the importance of selecting rapidly reversible agents "in case neurologic signs and symptoms worsen...

Rehabilitation and acute stroke care.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... Quality-of-care indicators provide an important framework for developing consistent high-quality care. The commentary by Patrice Lindsay and associates (1) provides a framework for acute stroke care but fails to address the necessary link to...

Are children with type 1 diabetes immunocompromised?(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... In their clinical report of a 4-year-old child with leukemia and an enlarging arm lesion that proved to have been caused by an opportunistic fungus, Ahmed Mater and associates (1) state that "[these i]nfections generally occur in...

Effect of thiazolidinediones on lipid profile.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... In their review of oral hypoglycemic therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus, Alice Cheng and George Fantus (1) mention the effect of thiazolidinediones on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol; I would like to add some comments about the...

Benzene rings.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... A recent Clinical Vistas article (1) provides an interesting look at the similarity between homogentisic acid, which is excreted in the urine of people with alkaptonuria, and hydroquinone, which is used in the process to develop photographs....

Corrections.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
August 16, 2005... In a recent article, (1) a link to an online version of Table 1 incorrectly lists the volume number as 1723 as opposed to 173. Reference (1.) Dendukuri N, Costa V, McGregor M, Brophy JM. Probiotic therapy for the prevention and...

Patient demand and politics push Herceptin forward.(Drug Regulation)
August 16, 2005... The decision of some provinces to pay for the extended use of trastuzumab (Herceptin) in breast cancer treatment is being met with relief by patients and ambivalence by some analysts. Trastuzumab has been used since 1999 in hospital...

BMA House caught in the blast.(News)(Brief Article)
August 16, 2005... BMA House staff were first-hand witnesses and helpers in the July 7 London bombings. The bomb that destroyed the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square exploded directly outside BMA House, killing 13 and spreading "blood and flesh on the walls of...

MDs call for socially responsible investments.(Medical Ethics)
August 16, 2005... Physicians for Global Survival PGS) is calling on MD Management Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CMA, to divest its armaments industry investments and develop its own socially responsible investment funds. In a letter to the chair of...

Critical time for health care says new CMA President.(Medical Politics)
August 16, 2005... Although Dr. Ruth Collins-Nakai doesn't officially become CMA's new president until August 17, she has effectively been on the job since the Chaoulli decision. "It's a critical time for health care in Canada because the way we react to...

Health Canada lukewarm on Vioxx panel findings.(Drug Regulation)
August 16, 2005... An expert panel is recommending the reintroduction of rofecoxib (Vioxx) on the Canadian market, but Health Canada is unsure about some of the panel's evidence and won't make a decision until fall. Rofecoxib, a COX-2 inhibitor, was...

Countries continue to ratify land mines treaty.(Disarmament)(Brief Article)
August 16, 2005... In July, Latvia became the 145th country to become bound to the Ottawa Convention, an international treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines first signed by 122 countries in Ottawa in December 1997. The Convention on the Prohibition of the...

New ethical requirements at the NIH: implications for CIHR and Canada.(National Institutes of Health)
August 16, 2005... The post-Enron era has been characterized by increased public demand for accountability and transparency. This new environment of accountability has created fresh challenges for the publicly funded research community, for funders as well as for...

Analgesia through endogenous cannabinoids.(Science and Medicine)
August 16, 2005... It is well known that endogenous opioids act to suppress pain. New research reveals that endogenous cannabinoids likewise exist and function as stress-induced analgesics. (1) The medicinal use of marijuana goes back into history as far as...

A 67-year-old woman with recurrent hypoglycemia: non-islet cell tumour hypoglycemia.(Teaching Case Report)
August 16, 2005... THE CASE: A 67-year-old woman was brought to hospital by her husband, who had found her sweaty and unresponsive in the morning. She was hypoglycemic, with a plasma glucose level of 1.2 mmol/L (normal range 3.8-6.1 mmol/L). After receiving...

Stroke prevention.(Public Health)
August 16, 2005... Background and epidemiology: This past May and June, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Agency of Canada each dedicated a month, respectively, to raising awareness about stroke. Each year in Canada stroke...

Does lumbar surgery for chronic low-back pain make a difference?(In the Literature)
August 16, 2005... Fairbank J, Frost H, Wilson-MacDonald J, Ly-Mee Y, Barker K, Collins R; for the Spine Stabilisation Trial Group. Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for...

A 42-year-old man with a rapidly growing lesion of the soft palate.(Clinical Vistas)
August 16, 2005... A 42-year-old previously well man was referred to our dermatology clinic for evaluation of a lesion on his soft palate. The lesion had appeared suddenly without precipitating trauma, had grown rapidly over 2 months and tended to bleed easily....

Assessing the risk of waiting for coronary artery bypass graft surgery among patients with stenosis of the left main coronary artery.(Research/Recherche)
August 16, 2005... Abstract Background: Significant controversy remains over how urgently coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) should be scheduled, particularly for patients with stenosis of the left main coronary artery. Our main objective was to...

Childhood predictors of smoking in adolescence: a follow-up study of Montreal schoolchildren.(Research/Recherche)
August 16, 2005... Abstract Background: The factors that cause children to become smokers in adolescence remain unclear. Although parental smoking and peer pressure may play a role, physiological factors such as lung volume have also been identified. ...

Should patients with stenosis of the left main coronary artery waiting for bypass grafting be given priority?(Commentary/Commentaire)
August 16, 2005... Insufficient capacity for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) results in waiting time before surgery, in patients being assigned to different waiting times and in risk of death among the patients who are waiting. Angina symptoms,...

A new childhood pathway for transmission of an increased likelihood of smoking?(Commentary/Commentaire)
August 16, 2005... Cigarette use has long been known to be a prominent cause of illness and death, although only this year has a randomized controlled trial demonstrating this been published. (1) Nonetheless, the many cohort studies coming to this same conclusion...

Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 5. The effect of spectrum of disease on the performance of diagnostic tests.
August 16, 2005... For clinicians to use a diagnostic test in clinical practice, they need to know how well the test distinguishes between those who have the suspected disease or condition and those who do not. If investigators choose clinically inappropriate...

Coming home to mindfulness in medicine.(The Left Atrium)(Book Review)
August 16, 2005... Coming to our senses Jon Kabat-Zinn New York: Hyperion; 2005 631 pp $21.95 (paper) ISBN 0-7868-8654-4 We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first...

From prose into practice.(Letter to the Editor)
August 16, 2005... The mindfulness meditation workshop with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn is scheduled to run for three hours. The afternoon begins with a 20-minute guided meditation, followed by a question-and-comment session with the workshop's 250 participants. One hour...

A late modernist.(Lifeworks of Edwin Holgate)
August 16, 2005... A late modernist Edwin Holgate Curators: Rosalind Pepall with Brian Foss Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Until Oct. 2, 2005 There is a portrait of a child-woman clad in black hanging in the National Gallery in Ottawa that I regularly visit....

Deaths/Necrologie.(Obituary)
August 16, 2005... Adhikari, Kiran C., Regina, Sask.; Dibrugarh University (India), 1954; internal medicine; FRCPC; former staff, Regina General and Pasqua hospitals; associate clinical professor, University of Saskatchewan. Died Apr. 18, 2005, aged 80. ...

Query.(The opinion of one physican who works fee for service)
August 16, 2005... I work fee-for-service. I do this out of distrust of the government. It's the last shred of my tattered independence. As time passes, more and more physicians are exchanging their independence for bags of money dispensed by the government. The...

Disclosure and performance: expecting more, and better/Divulgation et rendement: on s'attend a plus et mieux.(Editorial)
August 30, 2005... Those of us who start each day with that double assault on the nerves, a cup of coffee and the morning paper, are growing accustomed to bad-news stories in health care. A recent example is the revelation by reporter Barry Meier in the New York...

Physician, regulate thyself!(Letter to the Editor)
August 30, 2005... We could not agree more with a CMAJ editorial (1) that suggests confidence in physicians is at the core of what we do. We also agree that strong licensing and regulatory bodies are needed. Long before the Shipman case came to light in the...

Patients beware.(Letter to the Editor)
August 30, 2005... As reported by Laura Eggertson, (1) some health care professionals foresee the need to ameliorate the drug approval mechanism in the United States and Canada. From the patient's point of view, there is also a need for a more comprehensive and...

Psychological aftermath of abortion.(Letter to the Editor)
August 30, 2005... William Fisher and associates, (1) in their article on women undergoing repeat induced abortion, state, "Evidence also does not indicate that women seeking repeat abortion are psychologically maladjusted." Although this statement is not...

Staffing levels for long-term care.(Letter to the Editor)
August 30, 2005... As an officer of the BC Care Providers Association (a provincial association representing both private and nonprofit facilities providing services to more than 10 000 residents in British Columbia), I read with interest the article by Margaret...

Correction.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
August 30, 2005... In Table 2 of the article on the WOW health survey on older women's health priorities and perceptions of care delivery, (1) the heading of the second data column should have read "Priority is of some concern or importance," with the...

Children's mental health services neglected: Kirby.(Michael Kirby)
August 30, 2005... Children's mental health services are the "most neglected piece" of the Canadian health care system, says Senator Michael Kirby, chair of a committee examining Canadian mental health issues. The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs,...

Wanted: manufacturer for Ebola and Marburg vaccines.(research scientist searching a private-sector contractor )(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Now that the excitement over the discovery has subsided, the hard work of bringing to market the world's only vaccines for Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever is just beginning. Dr. Steven Jones, a research scientist at the Winnipeg-based...

Safety campaign aims to reduce adverse events.(Canadian Institute for Patient Safety's Safer Healthcare Now! campaign)
August 30, 2005... About half of Canada's health care organizations have enrolled in a patient safety campaign aimed at reducing the number of adverse-event related deaths and injuries in hospitals. Launched on June 28, the Canadian Institute for Patient...

Northern Ontario School of Medicine opens.(medical education)
August 30, 2005... Canada's first new medical school in 30 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine opens its doors Sept. 6 with an entry class of 56 students and an innovative model of medical training. Four years and $95.3 million in the making, the...

New medicinal marijuana rules ease onus on physicians.(Federal Regulations)
August 30, 2005... Revised regulations governing Health Canada's medicinal marijuana program reduce the onus on physicians as gatekeepers, but the 4-year-old program is still cause for concern, says the CMA. Under the revised Marihuana Medical Access...

Stay granted in Chaoulli decision.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Stay granted in Chaoulli decision: The Supreme Court has stayed, for 1 year, its judgment striking down the province's ban on private health insurance. Quebec, supported by Ottawa, had argued that the ruling in the Chaoulli case was complex and...

Bacterial infection in China.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Bacterial infection in China: Epidemiologists in southwest China are investigating a bacterial infection that killed 38 people among a total of 206 infected, as of August 5. The farmers and others had all handled sick or dead pigs in June and...

Retailers butt out.(Retailers' Behavior Toward Certain Youth Access-to-Tobacco Restrictions survey)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Retailers butt out: More tobacco retailers are refusing to sell to youth aged 15-19. The Retailers' Behavior Toward Certain Youth Access-to-Tobacco Restrictions survey indicates that in 2004, 82% of retailers refused to sell cigarettes to...

Breast cancer wait times.(women files lawsuit against Quebec hospitals)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Breast cancer wait times: The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Quebec government won't be named in a potentially massive lawsuit by women who say they had to wait too long for postsurgery radiation treatment at 12 Quebec hospitals....

Blindness risk.(side effects of using Viagra)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2005... Blindness risk: Health Canada is warning men taking sildenafil (Viagra, Cialis or Levitra) for erectile dysfunction to seek medical attention immediately if they experience vision problems. The warning comes after 2 reports in Canada of...

Bristling BBQs.(brushes and other barbecue utensils)
August 30, 2005... Bristling BBQs: A doctor at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children wants an industry review of wire brushes and other barbecue utensils after the hospital removed broken-off bristles from the throats of 3 patients this summer. The bristles can be...