CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal articles from March 2005

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal archives from March 2005

HIV, harm reduction and human rights/VIH, reduction des prejudices et droits de la personne.(Editorial)(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... One of the most important facts about the global AIDS epidemic facing us in 2005 is that 10% of new HIV infections are now related to illicit injection drug use. Outside Africa, at least one in three new infections results from the sharing of a...

NNT for studies with long-term follow-up.(Letters/Correspondance)(Evidence-based medicine; number needed to treat)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... The first article in the series for learners of evidence-based medicine discusses the concept of number needed to treat (NNT). (1) However, studies involving patients who need long-term follow-up, such as those with cancer or chronic cardiac...

How to diagnose diabetes.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... In their commentary on the impact of new guidelines for glucose tolerance testing, Andrew Lyon and associates1 argue against increased use of the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) on the grounds of poor reproducibility, cumbersomeness and...

Clinical trial budgets.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... In May 1991, Ian Rusted chaired a 2day workshop sponsored by the National Council on Bioethics in Human Research (now the National Council on Ethics in Human Research) entitled "Ethics of Clinical Trials for Research Ethics Boards." (1) The...

Is topical treatment of osteoarthritis site-specific?(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... The topical treatment of osteoarthritis has until now been left to the questionable domain of patent medicines and television advertising. Arthur Bookman and associates (1) are to be congratulated for bringing some science to the area through...

Correction.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... The DOI published in a recent news item1 was mistakenly listed as 10.1503/cmaj.1045319. It should be 10.1503/cmaj.045319. Reference (1.) Sibbald B. Tighten Ontario's methadone program states inquest. CMAJ 2005;172(3):319-20. ...

Providing open access to research, one article at a time.(Disseminating Research)
March 1, 2005... Advocates of unrestricted public access to scientific research are moving beyond online journals--which are increasingly available only to subscribers--toward encouraging researchers to offer direct access to their published work. This...

Quebec puts up $20 million for C. difficile fight.(Infection Control)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard will give hospitals another $20 million to hire more staff to fight Clostridium difficile, but he did not reveal how many died from the infection last year. The Quebec government, which has...

Wanted: housing for 900 000 Sri Lankans.(Dispatches)
March 1, 2005... In the wake of the tsunami disaster, the largest remaining challenge in Sri Lanka is finding housing for 900 000 displaced residents, says the press officer for Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada. MSF is taking on that challenge, even though...

Canadian company to develop mock pandemic vaccine.(Influenza Vaccine)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Vancouver-based ID Biomedical Corporation has begun developing a mock vaccine to protect people against H5N1 influenza, which the World Health Organization believes is the most likely candidate for the next flu pandemic. The company will...

Physician loses appeal of "zero tolerance" rule.(Medicolegal)
March 1, 2005... The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a physician who lost his licence because he had a sexual relationship with one of his patients. Dr. Anil Mussani, a primary care physician in Burlington, Ont., engaged in a...

C. difficile manual.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... C. difficile manual: Hospitals and other health care facilities that want to avoid outbreaks of Clostridium difficile have a new resource. Ontario's Provincial Infectious Disease Advisory Committee wrote the guidelines after news of a C....

MRIs by the numbers.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... MRIs by the numbers: The number of MRI machines in Canada has quadrupled in the last decade, but the per capita supply is still less than in many other industrialized countries (www.cihi.ca). Medical Imaging in Canada, 2004, from the Canadian...

Abortion payment.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Abortion payment: The New Brunswick government is refusing to pay for abortions performed at private clinics, despite renewed warnings from Ottawa. Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh told the province it is violating the Canada Health Act by...

Calling young investigators.(News @ a glance)
March 1, 2005... Calling young investigators: Encouraged by its success last year, the National Research Forum for Young Investigators in Circulatory and Respiratory Health will be held Apr. 28 to May 1 in Winnipeg (www.yiforum.ca/). Last year, more than 500...

UN pledge.(News @ a glance)(health)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... UN pledge: All 191 UN member states have pledged to assuage the world's ills by 2015 by meeting the 8 Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org /millenniumgoals/). The broad goals include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving...

No tobacco displays.(News @ a glance)(tobacco advertising)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... No tobacco displays: Saskatchewan's law outlawing the use of promotional tobacco displays and advertising in premises that are accessible to minors remains in force after a Supreme Court of Canada decision Jan. 19. The decision overrules an...

Administering antihypertensive drugs after acute ischemic stroke: timing is everything.(Stroke)
March 1, 2005... Hypertension is a common early finding in patients who have experienced an acute ischemic stroke. It occurs both in patients who were normotensive and in those who were receiving antihypertensive therapy before the stroke. In many cases the...

Alzheimer's disease: genetic variables and risk.(Science And Medicine)
March 1, 2005... The risk of Alzheimer's disease may come down to the expression of various forms of the human apolipoprotein E gene (apoE). Jean-Cosme Dodart and colleagues1 have recently shown that injecting a variant of apoE into the brains of mice has an...

Identifying fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in primary care.(Guidelines For Diagnosis)
March 1, 2005... Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a term that encompasses the wide range of physical, mental and behavioural effects that can occur when a person is exposed to ethanol during gestation. The diagnoses under the FASD umbrella are fetal...

Using a family history tool to prevent chronic diseases.(Public Health)
March 1, 2005... Background: Family health history is not a new concept in medicine and public health, but it has been neglected by both patients and physicians. In the United States, the Surgeon General is trying to encourage people to learn about health...

An 89-year-old woman with cranial nerve dysfunction diagnosis by observation.(Clinical Vistas)
March 1, 2005... A previously healthy 89-year-old woman was referred to the plastic surgery service because of a rapidly growing lesion at the base of her right nostril at the nasolabial fold. The patient had had this lesion for several years, and it had begun...

Should subclinical hypothyroidism in elderly patients be treated?(In The Literature)
March 1, 2005... Gussekloo J, van Exel E, de Craen AJM, Meinders AE, Frolich M, Westendorp RGJ. Thyroid status, disability and cognitive function, and survival in old age. JAMA2004;292:2591-9. Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism is defined as a normal...

Characteristics of women undergoing repeat induced abortion.(Research/Recherche)
March 1, 2005... Abstract Background: Although repeat induced abortion is common, data concerning characteristics of women undergoing this procedure are lacking. We conducted this study to identify the characteristics, including history of physical abuse...

Staffing levels in not-for-profit and for-profit long-term care facilities: does type of ownership matter?(Research/Recherche)
March 1, 2005... Abstract Background: Currently there is a lot of debate about the advantages and disadvantages of for-profit health care delivery. We examined staffing ratios for direct-care and support staff in publicly funded not-for-profit and...

Violence and abortions: what's a doctor to do?(Commentary/Commentaire)
March 1, 2005... Before 1989, in hospitals across Canada, groups of 3 physicians would meet once a week to read and consider stories of failure and remorse. No legal abortion could be performed in this country without such a committee's approval. For years I...

Reason and rights in global drug control policy.(Commentary)
March 1, 2005... Among a number of compelling reasons for the international community to reconsider the "war on drugs," the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the most urgent. The prevailing emphasis on law enforcement in drug policy has failed to produce its purported...

Antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media: time to think again.(Commentary)
March 1, 2005... The use of antibiotics in the treatment of acute otitis media remains a controversial area in medical practice. Clinical guidelines have been proposed, but practice patterns remain varied, (1) reflecting the indecisiveness of existing...

Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 4. Assessing heterogeneity of primary studies in systematic reviews and whether to combine their results.(Review/Synthese)
March 1, 2005... Clinicians wishing to quickly answer a clinical question may seek a systematic review, rather than searching for primary articles. Such a review is also called a meta-analysis when the investigators have used statistical techniques to combine...

The medicine is in the message.(Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Cultural sutures: medicine and media Lester D. Friedman, editor Durham (NC): Duke University Press; 2004 452 pp US$24.95 (paper) ISBN 0-8223-3294-9 Given the overwhelming impact of the "media age," it is perhaps surprising that a...

The drop attack.(Room for a view)(Neurosurgery; human error)
March 1, 2005... The nurse's voice at the other end of the phone contained some urgency. "You'd better come right back to the OR, Dr. Bernstein, the guys need you. We have a situation." What could it possibly be? It was the last day of work before a...

Afghanistan: in recovery.(Photo essay)(Column)
March 1, 2005... Peacebuilding and peacekeeping--Canadian style, close up--that's what I witnessed as one of ten Canadian educators invited by the Department of National Defence to Operation Athena in Kabul, Afghanistan. Through their lens, I was impressed by...

Deaths/Necrologie.(Obituary)
March 1, 2005... Notice--CMAJ welcomes obituaries submitted within 60 days of a death. Send to Kyle Rooks, kyle .rooks@cma.ca; fax 613 565-5471. Adamson, David H., St. Thomas, Ont.; University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1952; anesthesia; ChB, FRCPC;...

Query.(Physicians' experiences)(Column)
March 1, 2005... There are different ways to fail. Sometimes I fail as a doctor by making the wrong decision or missing a finding. I've missed pneumonias; subtle upswings on electrocardiograms have slipped past me; the occasional lump and bump I've reassured...

Can physicians regulate themselves?/Les medecins sont-ils capables de s'autoreglementer?(Editorial)(Editorial)
March 15, 2005... [E]very doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet [sic] by giving him away.--Bernard Shaw, Preface on Doctors, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1911 Patients want and need to...

Peer review of articles on global burden of disease.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 15, 2005... Paula Rochon and associates (1) call for a better reflection of the global burden of disease in clinical trials published in leading general medical journals. In extending their coverage to global health issues, large Western medical journals...

Case summaries: another method.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 15, 2005... The article by Ahmed Bayoumi and Peter Kopplin (1) presents an alternative to traditional case presentations. The authors emphasize presentations that produce "logical flow," "present the most salient information early" and do not "impede...

More arithmetic of health care.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 15, 2005... Contrary to the claims of Janice MacKinnon, (1) the most recent data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for 2002, show that Canada ranked sixth, not third, in terms of health care spending as a percentage of...

Corrections.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
March 15, 2005... In a recent Public Health article, (1) the correct dosage for erythromycin should have been given as 500 mg (not 50 mg) four times daily for 14-21 days (depending on severity and response to treatment). Reference (1.) Weir E....

Health Canada to seek public input on drugs.(Federal Policy)
March 15, 2005... Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh has promised to open up Canada's drug approval process to allow public comment on pharmaceutical company submissions and on postmarketing experiences. The changes to Health Canada's drug approval process--which...

Health Council: shortages critical.(shortage of physicians and medical personnels)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... Canada needs to work faster to solve its critical shortage of physicians and other health care workers and other systemic problems, the Health Council of Canada says in its first report. Canada also needs to work harder to bring health care...

Relief needs coordination: CARE Canada.(Humanitarian Aid)
March 15, 2005... Canada's nongovernmental organizations need a coordinated appeal process so they can raise funds with less administrative overhead, says CARE Canada's president and CEO. John Watson says Canada should adopt a model similar to Britain's...

Trends in bariatric surgery in Canada, 1993-2003.(Pulse)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... The annual number of bariatric surgeries in Canada (excluding Quebec and rural Manitoba) has risen from 78 in 2000-01 to over 1100 procedures in 2002-03, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information Discharge Abstract Database....

Feeling the pressure.(diagnosis of hypertension)
March 15, 2005... New recommendations urge physicians to diagnose and manage hypertension more quickly to prevent complications. It now takes up to 6 months from initial presentation to diagnosis, which delays treatment and increases the possibility of...

Babushka revolution.(demonstrations and protests)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... Babushka revolution: Legions of Russian pensioners, war veterans and handicapped people--including large numbers of grandmotherly "babushkas"--protested throughout January after free health, transportation and social services for more 25...

Genetic lab test.(Food and Drug Administration approves DNA laboratory test system)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... Genetic lab test: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first DNA laboratory test system that will let physicians assess a patient's unique genetic information before prescribing. The microarray test analyzes one of the...

Ontario pays up.(payment for behavioral treatment)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... Ontario pays up: An Ontario judge has ordered the province to pay for behavioural treatment for 3 autistic children despite an earlier Supreme Court of Canada decision that the BC government didn't have to pay (CMAJ 2005;172:168). Ontario...

No free lunch.(limitations on meals for healthcare professionals)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... No free lunch: New limits have been put on meals and other entertainment pharmaceutical companies can offer healthcare professionals. The revised Code of Conduct from the Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies states that...

New ethics at NIH.(National Institutes of Health)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... New ethics at NIH: The 18 000 employees of the US National Institutes of Health are now prohibited from investing in or accepting consulting fees or other income from biomedical companies. For the past decade, scientists have been quietly...

Rabies vaccine shortage.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2005... Rabies vaccine shortage: Federal officials are working to overcome a shortage of rabies vaccine that is expected to last until 2006. Aventis Pasteur Ltd., which manufactures Canada's only approved rabies vaccine, recently had to recall several...

Trends in disciplines selected by applicants in the Canadian resident matches, 1994-2004.(Medical Education)
March 15, 2005... We reviewed data collected by the Canadian Resident Matching Service from 1994 to 2004 to study trends in applicants' preferences for disciplines. An applicant's ranking of a specialty as his or her first choice was used as a marker of...

A Nod toward understanding Crohn's disease.(Science And Medicine)
March 15, 2005... New research is advancing our understanding of the genetic factors involved in the development of Crohn's disease. The disease strikes about 6 out of every 100 000 people in Western countries, (1) and although a genetic component has long been...

Acute monoarticular arthritis caused by Maltese cross-like crystals.(Case Report)
March 15, 2005... A 44-year-old woman who was previously healthy was seen in the emergency department with a 1-day history of increasing pain in her left knee. She denied trauma and reported no family history of arthritis. Her temperature was 38.5[degrees]C, and...

Parvovirus B19 infection: fifth disease and more.(Public Health)
March 15, 2005... Epidemiology and background: Parvovirus B19 is a member of the large Parvoviridae family, which includes pathogenic animal viruses that have long been of interest to veterinarians and virologists. (1) The discovery of a parvovirus in human...

Can CPAP prevent the need for endotracheal intubation in patients with hypoxemia after abdominal surgery?(In The Literature)(continuous positive airway pressure )
March 15, 2005... Squadrone V, Coha M, Cerutti E, Schellino MM, Biolino P, Occella P, et al. Continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of postoperative hypoxemia. A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2005; 293:589-95. Background: Hypoxemia is...

A man whose scapula was spared a drug-associated rash.(Clinical Vistas)
March 15, 2005... A 49-year-old man had been well until advanced lung carcinoma with mediastinal spread and contralateral lung metastases was diagnosed. He received chemotherapy (cisplatin, gemcitabine, vinorelbine), and the progression of disease was...

Medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera) and bone mineral density loss.(Health And Drug Alerts)
March 15, 2005... Reason for posting: Medroxyprogesterone acetate is an injectable agent widely used for contraception and the treatment of endometriosis. However, a warning was recently issued that patients taking this drug may experience a significant loss of...

Effectiveness of a home-based balance-training program in reducing sports-related injuries among healthy adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial.(Research/Recherche)
March 15, 2005... Abstract Background: Sport is the leading cause of injury requiring medical attention among adolescents. We studied the effectiveness of a home-based balance-training program using a wobble board in improving static and dynamic balance and...

Vitamin D deficiency and whole-body and femur bone mass relative to weight in healthy newborns.(Research/Recherche)
March 15, 2005... Abstract Background: Vitamin D is required for normal bone growth and mineralization. We sought to determine whether vitamin D deficiency at birth is associated with bone mineral content (BMC) of Canadian infants. Methods: We measured...

Drug withdrawals from the Canadian market for safety reasons, 1963-2004.(Commentary/Commentaire)
March 15, 2005... By studying drugs that have been withdrawn from the market for safety reasons, we can gain valuable insight into postmarketing surveillance as well as the process for approving new drugs. In the past decade there has been a major shift in the...

Vitamin D deficiency in the 21st century: a persistent problem among Canadian infants and mothers.(Commentary/Commentaire)
March 15, 2005... Vitamin D deficiency is an age-old public health problem. It was first described, as rickets, in the mid-17th century by Francis Glisson and other fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Although there has long been a folk...

An approach to the management of unintentional weight loss in elderly people.(Review/Synthese)
March 15, 2005... Abstract UNINTENTIONAL WEIGHT LOSS, or the involuntary decline in total body weight over time, is common among elderly people who live at home. Weight loss in elderly people can have a deleterious effect on the ability to function and on...

More than getting out of the cold.(The health care of homeless persons: A manual of communicable diseases and common problems in shelters and on the streets)(Book Review)
March 15, 2005... The health care of homeless persons: a manual of communicable diseases and common problems in shelters and on the streets James J. O'Connell, editor Boston, Mass: Guthrie Nixon Smith; 2004 345 pp US$15 ISBN 0-9711650-8-4 With tens of...

Pathology in Laos--a start.(Room for a view)(Mahosot Hospital)
March 15, 2005... The Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane occupies the better part of a city block on Fa Ngum Road, which runs parallel to the east bank of the Mekong River. It's a heterogeneous collection of oddly matched buildings that includes bungalow-style wards,...

Deaths/Necrologie.(Obituary)
March 15, 2005... Notice--CMAJ welcomes obituaries submitted within 60 days of a death. Send to Kyle Rooks, kyle .rooks@cma.ca; fax 613 565-5471. Brownell, Edward G., Winnipeg; University of Manitoba, 1946; internal medicine; FACC, FRCP(Lond.), FACP, FRCPC;...

Query.(psychosomatic disorders)
March 15, 2005... I often feel useless as a doctor. Weeks go by in which I find nothing, no ominous lumps or heart thumps, no malignant splotches or purpuric blotches. I see patient after patient, hear story after story, and do little more than act as a sounding...

Emergency contraception moves behind the counter/La contraception d'urgence derriere le comptoir.(Editorial)(Editorial)
March 29, 2005... Health Canada's reclassification of the levonorgestrel "morning-after pill" as a nonprescription drug, thus permitting pharmacists to dispense this postcoital oral contraceptive directly to women who need it, when they need it, is welcome news...

Perils of systematic reviews.(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... Jeremy Grimshaw provides a useful report card on the first 10 years of the Cochrane Collaboration. (1) In addition to showcasing its virtues, he describes existing gaps and outlines challenges for the future. However, Grimshaw did not discuss...

Infant mortality in Alberta and all of Canada.(Letters/Correspondance)(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... CMAJ recently drew attention to Alberta's high infant mortality rate and implicated babies from neighbouring provinces, multiple births and "a large First Nations population that experiences higher rates of alcohol and tobacco use." (1)...

Outcome reporting bias in government-funded RCTs.(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... An-Wen Chan and associates, (1) in their evaluation of outcome reporting bias in 48 randomized controlled trials funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), found that a high number (median 26) of outcomes were declared in each...

Medical education and chronic disease.(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... Anton Miller and associates, (1) in their commentary on the need to improve health care services for children with chronic health conditions, reveal one of the weaknesses of the medical profession. We have difficulty adapting to new situations,...

Violence in advertising.(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... I am writing to express concern about the full-page advertisement for telithromycin that appeared on page 1016 of the Oct. 26 issue of CMAJ (volume 171, issue 9). The advertisement shows a man with a pistol aiming at 3 head-and-torso...

Clinical trial registration/L'inscription des etudes cliniques.(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2005... At a recent meeting, the Canadian Medical Association Executive approved the following motion: The CMA endorses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors document entitled "Clinical trial registration: a statement from the...

Correction.(Letters/Correspondance)(Correction Notice)
March 29, 2005... In a recent article, (1) the fourth sentence in the Conclusion should read as follows: "Indeed, a number of important clinical factors, although included in the report (special consideration for elderly people, ethnic differences, physical...

Nonprescription status for emergency contraception.(Reproductive Health)
March 29, 2005... Emergency contraception is slated to become available without a prescription in Canada by early April, but obtaining levonorgestrel (Plan B) will still require a consultation with a pharmacist (see Editorial, page 845). Proponents say the move...

Dosanjh to act on Canada Health Act violations.(Health Policy)(Ujjal Dosanjh)
March 29, 2005... Published at www.cmaj.ca on Mar. 2, 2005. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh will use a new dispute avoidance process when dealing with provinces accused of violating the Canada Health Act, the minister says. "We want to make sure that we...

Minority government commits $20.2 billion to health.(Federal Budget)
March 29, 2005... In a minority federal government it's all about survival, so Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's fiscal blueprint for 2005-06 provided a little bit of something for everyone, while reserving the biggest increases for retooling the military and...

Bureaucrat is new head of drug approvals.(Health Canada)(Omer Boudreau)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2005... Health Canada has replaced the physician who headed the department's Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) with a political scientist and career bureaucrat. Dr. Robert Peterson, who headed the directorate for the last 5 years, left Feb....

"New approach" as Health Canada seeks conditional licences for drugs, new pediatric office.(Drug Approval)
March 29, 2005... A longer version was published at www.cmaj.ca on Mar. 2, 2005. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh's vision for a revamped drug approval system in Canada includes conditional licensing for some drugs and the creation of a new pediatric office to...

US senator alleges FDA tried to prevent Adderall XR withdrawal in Canada.(Chuck Grassley)
March 29, 2005... Published at www.cmaj.ca on Mar. 9, 2005. Health Canada's discussions with its US counterpart about a drug it later pulled from the market were "irrelevant" and had no bearing on its decision, despite allegations by an influential US...

Tobacco class action.(Imperial Tobacco Group PLC)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2005... Tobacco class action: The BC Supreme Court certified a class-action suit against Imperial Tobacco Feb. 7 over its marketing of cigarettes labelled "mild" or "light." Justice Deborah Satanove said the basis of plaintiff Kenneth Knight's claim is...

Free ride.(News @ a glance)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2005... Free ride: New Brunswick is poised to become the only province in Canada where people needing emergency medical care can get a free ride to the hospital in an ambulance. The move comes in the midst of plans to close several hospitals and cut...

Blog blog.(Brief Article)
March 29, 2005... Blog blog: Follow the trail of former CMAJ editorial fellow (2002-03) and emergency physician James Maskalyk on a cmaj.ca Web blog as he roams the globe with Medecins Sans Frontieres until mid-April. He will visit MSF projects in Bolivia,...

Crisis? What crisis?(News @ a glance)(Infectious disease control)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2005... Crisis? What crisis? Two years after SARS swept through Toronto, the Public Health Agency of Canada opened a $3 million "nerve centre" in Winnipeg to help detect and control outbreaks of infectious disease. Located in the Canadian Science...