June 16, 1998 / le 16 juin 1998

CMAJ 1998; 158(12)

© 1998 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

1589 1591

Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

Couverture : La prophylaxie au tamoxifène réduit phénoménalement l'incidence de cancer du sein chez les femmes à risque élevé. Cette bonne nouvelle a suscité l'interruption prématurée de l'étude sur la prévention du cancer du sein. Pour ce qui est des mauvaises nouvelles, Richard Margolese et Vivek Goel y réagissent aux pages 1613 et 1615. Cover: The good news that tamoxifen prophylaxis dramatically reduced breast cancer incidence among high-risk women has brought the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial to an early close. Richard Margolese and Vivek Goel respond to the bad news on pages 1613 and 1615.

1595	News and analysis It pays for UK MDs to use computers Hear ye, hear ye! Oyez! Oyez! Childhood bone density studied at UBC House-call services under Cool site

1599	Letters ˇ Correspondance Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants Prenatal ultrasonography in rural hospitals, F. Christian; M. Webster et al; response: E.J. Thompson Answering the hard questions about thrombolysis, S. Socransky; M. Schull; S.W. Yusuf; response: J. Brophy

	Evidence ˇ Études
1603	Unexpected death related to restraint for excited delirium: a retrospective study of deaths in police custody and in the community, M.S. Pollanen, D.A. Chiasson, J.T. Cairns, J.G. Young [abstract / résumé]

	Editorials ˇ Éditoriaux
1611	Death by restraint, D. Milliken [full text]
1613	How do we interpret the results of the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial?, R.G. Margolese [full text]
1615	Tamoxifen and breast cancer prevention: What should you tell your patients?, V. Goel [full text]

	Education ˇ Éducation
1621	Unconventional therapies for cancer: 6. 714-X, E. Kaegi, on behalf of the Task Force on Alternative Therapies of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative [full text]
1625	Preventing disability from work-related low-back pain. New evidence gives new hope — if we can just get all the players onside, J. Frank, S. Sinclair, S. Hogg-Johnson, H. Shannon, C. Bombardier, D. Beaton, D. Cole [abstract / résumé]

	Experience ˇ Expérience
1633	The days that will still be mine, J. Poulson [full text]

	Public health ˇ Santé publique
1637	Just when you thought it was safe to eat a burger . . . [full text]
1638	Et vous qui pensiez pouvoir manger un hamburger sans danger . . . [texte complet]

	Features ˇ Chroniques
1639	Does Canada face a crisis? US considers ending plasma exports, B. Sibbald [full text]
1642	"I won't do surgery if you don't try to do my job," head of new blood agency tells MDs, A. Mullens [in brief / en bref]
1645	Patented drugs: Is the price right?, C. Gray [full text]
1646	MDs who need psychiatric help afraid to seek it, conference told, S. Wharry [full text]

1647	On_the_Net@cma.ca ˇ Sur_le_Net@cma.ca    Signing on to the CMA's new MEDLINE service

1650	Books and other media ˇ Livres et autres documents    Evidence-based medicine

	Pulse ˇ Médicogramme
1680	Cancer in Canada and abroad / Le cancer au Canada et à l'étranger

ISSN 0820-3946 158(12) 1585-1680 (1998)