CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal articles from December 2006

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal archives from December 2006

A year in the life of CMAJ.(Canadian Medical Association Journal )(Editorial)
December 5, 2006... "Accordingly, THE CANADIAN MEDICAL [ASSOCIATION] JOURNAL is issued, as a medium for the expression of all that is best in Canadian Medicine." CMAJ 1911;1:57. The past year has been a remarkable one in the life of this scholarly medical...

Un an dans la vie du JAMC.(EDITORIAL)
December 5, 2006... > JAMC 1911;1:57. L'annee ecoulee a ete remarquable dans la vie de ce journal medical savant. Le redacteur en chef a ete remercie et un grand nombre des redacteurs scientifiques qui avaient commence l'annee avec le Journal ont demissionne....

Cut to marijuana research sends strong message.(Medical Marijuana Research Program )
December 5, 2006... The federal government's decision to cancel the Medical Marijuana Research Program (MMRP) sends a strong message that clinical research into the risks and benefits of herbal cannabis--the kind distributed by Ottawa under Supreme Court order--is...

Supreme Court rules against drug patent "evergreening".
December 5, 2006... It has become almost axiomatic in the pharmaceutical world that litigation has replaced innovation as the primary mode of operation, says the head of the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association. The Supreme Court of Canada tossed...

US relaxes rules for Rx shopping sprees to Canada.(prescription drug policy)
December 5, 2006... Canada can expect even more raids on its national medicine cabinet following 2 significant changes to US prescription drug policy. US residents are now allowed to return from Canada with a 3-month supply of a prescription medicine and can...

Gifts that give: Paging Dr. Empathy, paging Dr. Empathy.(Directory)
December 5, 2006... Behind door number 1: A box of the unwanted gifts that you will either give or receive this year. Behind door number 2: Your contribution to helping solve or alleviate some of the problems and suffering in this world. If you picked door number...

BC walk-in clinics warned.(British Columbia)
December 5, 2006... Doctors at walk-in clinics must deliver the same quality of patient care as in other settings, the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons has warned members. The unusually strong reprimand issued in the college's quarterly newsletter cites...

Quebec specialists withdraw teaching services.(Quebec Federation of Medical Specialists )
December 5, 2006... Medical students fear their training is being compromised by the latest pressure tactic from the Quebec Federation of Medical Specialists (QFMS) in its continuing dispute with the provincial government over controversial Bill 37. The QFMS...

News @ a glance.(Margaret Chan, World Health Organization, Vincent Lam, Giller Prize )(Brief article)
December 5, 2006... New WHO Director-General: Dr. Margaret Chan, from the People's Republic of China, will become the new WHO Director-General on Jan. 4. Chan, who obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario, vows to focus WHO's attention on...

Institute of Medicine's new drug safety report: implications for Canada.
December 5, 2006... Does the most advanced economy in the world have adequate drug safety legislation to keep its citizens safe from the potential harmful effects of medicines? The Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the National Academy of Sciences in the United...

Digital photography in the generalist's office.
December 5, 2006... Over the past decade, digital imaging technology has become widespread: most cameras now sold in North America and Europe are digital rather than film based. Digital photography has become an easy, inexpensive and rapid way to capture clinical...

Public health: beware the mistletoe.(unintentional ingestions in children)
December 5, 2006... Statistics on unintentional ingestions in children show that plants are consistently in the top ranks, and household plants are the commonest source. Fortunately, not all ingestions result in poisonings, although other factors such as allergy,...

Delays to reperfusion therapy in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the AMI-QUEBEC Study.
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Background: Through the AMI-QUEBEC Study we sought to describe delays to reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and to identify factors associated with prolonged delays. Methods: We...

Changes in rates of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage after the introduction of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors in British Columbia and Ontario.
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Background: Population rates of upper gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage have been observed to increase with the introduction and rapid uptake of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. Changes in COX-2 inhibitor use and...

Research letter: can hockey playoffs harm your hearing?
December 5, 2006... Excessive exposure to loud sounds is the leading cause of preventable hearing loss, (1) and most cases of noise-induced hearing loss are due to occupational exposure. The importance of hearing protection in the workplace is now well recognized,...

Recognition and management of neuropsychiatric complications in Parkinson's disease.
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Parkinson's disease is primarily considered a motor disease characterized by rest tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural disturbances. However, neuropsychiatric complications, including mood and anxiety disorders, fatigue,...

Auscultations: duty of care to the undiagnosed patient: ethical imperative, or just a load of Hogwarts?
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT With the restoration of You-Know-Who to full corporeal form, the practice of the dark arts may lead to multitudes being charmed, befuddled and confounded. At present, muggle ethics dictate that aid may be rendered in a life- or...

Auscultations; Early to bed and early to rise: does it matter?(Survey)
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Background: Controversy remains about whether early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise (the Ben Franklin hypothesis), or healthy, wealthy and dead (the James Thurber hypothesis). Methods: As part...

Holiday waistline; Jolly, fit and fat: should we be singing the "Santa Too Fat Blues"?(Survey)
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Santa Claus's apparent weight gain, much chronicled in the popular media, raises the question of whether his jolly persona could be at risk. We investigate why Santa remains jolly, even though he is becoming obese, and what...

Holiday waistline; Room for dessert: an expanded anatomy of the stomach.
December 5, 2006... The presence of an accessory dessert pouch of the stomach has been postulated informally for years. These claims are often made near the end of a holiday feast, after the main course as thoughts turn to the pending arrival of pies, cakes, ice...

Holiday waistline; Time to consensus: the effect of the stomach on consensus decision-making at large conferences.
December 5, 2006... ABSTRACT Introduction: The factors affecting decision-making at consensus conferences are not well understood. This paper studies the complex association between time to consensus (TTC) and the timing and quality of food, as well as the...

In other words: EBM and lesser-known ABCD relatives.(evidence-based medicine )
December 5, 2006... Among medical school staff and students, the hallways often ring with the question "what is the evidence-based medicine (sic) to support that conclusion?" Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been validated over and over again as an important...

In other words: are all the taken men good? An indirect examination of mate-choice copying in humans.
December 5, 2006... At first blush, the title of this article likely seems to be a typo. We assume most readers, like us, have at some point been regaled with complaints from friends that all the "good" men are "taken." Less colloquially, their concern is that...

In other words: pills.(Poem)
December 5, 2006... I am a prescriber, a puppet of the pharmaceutical Philistines pushing potions Per os to my impatient patients. Ut dictum they take the Latin scripts for the Pharmacist to translate and dispensa in perfect plastic bottles. They swallow...

MDs 'R' Us[R]: gifts for your favourite specialist.
December 5, 2006... A Pseudo-Doc Program[TM] Cardiac surgeons work long hours, often at the expense of spending quality time with their families--so much so that they soon become strangers in their own homes. If this sounds like you, don't "flat line" just...

Deaths.(Keith Bentley Akins, Roger James Crisfield, Peter Josef Cruse )(Obituary)
December 5, 2006... Akins, Keith Bentley, Nanoose Bay, BC; Queen's University, 1957, psychiatry. Died Aug. 28, 2006, aged 72. Crisfield, Roger James, Rossland, BC; University of London, UK, 1967. Died Aug. 25, 2006, aged 62. Cruse, Peter Josef Erasmus,...

Correction.(Correction notice)
December 5, 2006... A recent issue of CMAJ mistakenly included a death notice for Dr. Mohammad Mukhtar Ahmad. (1) We sincerely regret this error. REFERENCE 1. Deaths. CMAJ 2006;175(9):1167. DOI:10.1503/cmaj.061517

Query.
December 5, 2006... I just bought a new car. Or rather, the town bought me one. I found it in the park and it followed me home, honest. One day, I'd had enough. Enough of patients, enough of bureaucratic boobs (local and provincial), enough Electronic Medical...

Last gasp.(HOLIDAY REVIEW)
December 5, 2006... Rank of doctors among professions with most bacteria in their work environments: 5 Rank of accountants: 2 No. of spoons an office lunch room will have to buy in a year to ensure always having 70 on hand: 250 No. of vacation days...