Sommario

• • ·A pack a day: Just what the doctor ordered?

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• • ·iPhone app an aid in diagnosing concussions

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• • ·Provincial squeeze on generic prices continues

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• • ·Briefly

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• • ·Rwanda moving to provide “good deaths” for terminally ill

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• • ·For The Record

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• • ·Company profits from side effects of glaucoma treatment

    Pagina :E1058

     
• • ·Polypharmacy, multiple natural health products and hepatotoxicity

    Pagina :E1085

    Kosta Cvijovic, Heather Boon, Walter Jaeger, Sunita Vohra, for the SONAR group

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• • ·Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis

    Pagina :E1090

    Joe Dylewski

     
• • ·Thoracic balls

    Pagina :E1091

    Marc Garetier, Jean Rousset

     
• • ·An operatic version of the Banting story

    Pagina :E1092

    Ian Cameron

     
• • ·This again (or insomnia)

    Pagina :E1093

    Michael Rowe

     

• Editorial

  • ·Gonorrhea: what goes around comes around

    Pagina :1567

    Noni E. MacDonald, Matthew B. Stanbrook, Ken Flegel, Paul C. Hébert, Daniel Rosenfield

    

• Commentary

  • ·Withdrawing life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury

    Pagina :1570-1571

    David H. Livingston, Anne C. Mosenthal

    
  • ·Not all cardiac arrests are the same

    Pagina :1572-1573

    Benjamin S. Abella

    

• News

  • ·WHO reforms long overdue, critics say

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  • ·Value of e-prescribing questioned

    Pagina :1575-1577

     
  • ·Medical podcasts going viral

    Pagina :1577-1578

     
  • ·More news online

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• Research

  • ·Mortality associated with withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a Canadian multicentre cohort study

    Pagina :1581-1588

    Alexis F. Turgeon, François Lauzier, Jean-François Simard, Damon C. Scales, Karen E.A. Burns, Lynne Moore, David A. Zygun, Francis Bernard, Maureen O. Meade, Tran Cong Dung, Mohana Ratnapalan, Stephanie Todd, John Harlock, Dean A. Fergusson, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

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  • ·Predictors of survival after cardiac or respiratory arrest in critical care units

    Pagina :1589-1595

    Demetrios J. Kutsogiannis, Sean M. Bagshaw, Bryce Laing, Peter G. Brindley

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• Analysis

  • ·The potential for misusing “genetic predisposition” in Canadian courts and tribunals

    Pagina :1601-1604

    Roxanne Mykitiuk, Mark Pioro, Lilith Finkler, Jeff Nisker

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• Practice

  • ·Clinical shorts

    Pagina :1623

    Diane Kelsall

    
  • ·A patient with tremor, part 2: from diagnosis to treatment

    Pagina :1612-1616

    Hrishikesh Kumar, Mandar Jog

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  • ·Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in an adult with normal cerebrospinal fluid

    Pagina :1618-1620

    Emmanuel Montassier, David Trewick, Eric Batard, Gilles Potel

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  • ·Cataract surgery

    Pagina :1621

    Jonathan A. Micieli, Steve A. Arshinoff

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  • ·Oral field cancerization

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    Giulio Fortuna, Michele D. Mignogna

     

• Letters

  • ·Remembering Dr. Wilder Penfield

    Pagina :1627

    Ian Hammond

    
  • ·Remembering Dr. Wilder Penfield

    Pagina :1627

    David B. Walcott

    
  • ·Recommendations for stroke: 2010

    Pagina :1627-1628

    Alexandre Ackaoui, Jean-Pierre Pellerin

    
  • ·Measurement of family health teams is underdeveloped

    Pagina :1628

    Angie Heydon, John McDonald

    
  • ·Correction

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• Humanities

  • ·Congo bites

    Pagina :1631-1632

    Kevin Pottie

     
  • ·Whisper pectoriloquy

    Pagina :1633

    Daniel James

     

• Salon

  • ·Nuts, bolts and short-chain fatty acids

    Pagina :1676

    Monica Kidd

     

• Research

  • ·Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions

    Pagina :E1067

    Carl van Walraven, Alison Jennings, Monica Taljaard, Irfan Dhalla, Shane English, Sunita Mulpuru, Saul Blecker, Alan J. Forster

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  • ·Use of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of observational studies

    Pagina :E1073

    Chan Yoon, Hyun-Sik Yang, Inpyo Jeon, Yoosoo Chang, Sang Min Park

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  • ·Using the Edmonton obesity staging system to predict mortality in a population-representative cohort of people with overweight and obesity

    Pagina :E1059

    Raj S. Padwal, Nicholas M. Pajewski, David B. Allison, Arya M. Sharma

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