le 12 janvier 1999 / January 12, 1999

JAMC 1999; 160(1)

© 1999 Association médicale canadienne / Canadian Medical Association

Communiqué de presse

Sujets d'intérêt

5 7	Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

Couverture: La Semaine nationale des non-fumeurs, du 18 au 25 janvier, procure aux fumeurs une occasion idéale d'abandonner leur asservissement à la cigarette. Frederic Bass presse le gouvernement d'abandonner pour sa part son asservissement aux revenus que lui procurent les taxes sur le tabac (page 61).

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Nouvelles et analyses · News and analysis Sending CMAJ to developing nations CME popular during BC's reduced-activity days Toronto clinic offers addicts "rapid detox" Cool sites Your Editorial Board: Dr. Judith Hall Pulse: Health care spending: Sunnier days ahead? Briefly . . . Baby boomers and arthritis rates Not kid stuff Strange injuries

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Correspondance · Letters Directives aux correspondants / Instructions to correspondents Make way for the private sector, D. Wilson; response: C. Gray Is feverfew a pharmacologic agent?, H.C.G. Wong; response: W. Pryse-Phillips Kitchen-table medicine, D.W. McLennan; D. Alton; G.H. Morrison Practical reasoning in Canada, R. Upshur "Revenge fantasy" has no place in medicine, N. Conacher The autonomy of elderly patients, S.M.H. Alibhai; response: G. Bravo, P. De Wals; E. Shapiro The street life of drugs, M. Latowsky; B.J. Fern; J.F. Anderson; response: S. Grzybowski, et al; B. Goldman Royal College debates whether MDs should promote moderate consumption of alcohol [Correction]

	Études · Evidence
31	Persistence with treatment for hypertension in actual practice, J.J. Caro, M. Salas, J.L. Speckman, G. Raggio, J.D. Jackson [abstract / résumé]
41	Effect of initial drug choice on persistence with antihypertensive therapy: the importance of actual practice data, J.J. Caro, J.L. Speckman, M. Salas, G. Raggio, J.D. Jackson [abstract / résumé]
49	Current and projected annual direct costs of screening asymptomatic men for prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen, M.D. Krahn, B.A. Coombs, I.G. Levy [abstract / résumé]

	Éditoriaux · Editorials
61	Medical thunder is required to stir the Chrétien government, F. Bass [full text]
63	Access to medical and health information in the developing world: an essential tool for change in medical education, H. Haddad, S. MacLeod [full text]
64	Compliance in hypertension: Why don't patients take their pills, M.G. Myers [full text]
66	Impact of new technologies in medicine: progress and pitfalls, C.E. Caplan, J. Hoey [full text]
67	Entering "The Left Atrium", A.M. Todkill, J. Hoey [full text]

	Éducation · Education
70	Prostate-specific antigen testing in Ontario: reasons for testing patients without diagnosed prostate cancer, P.S. Bunting, V. Goel, J.I. Williams, N.A. Iscoe [abstract / résumé]
78	Prostate cancer: 8. Urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction, M.M. Hassouna, J.P.W. Heaton [full text]

	Santé publique · Public health
88	The big chill: diseases exacerbated by exposure to cold, C.E. Caplan [full text]

91	De l'Oreille Gauche · The Left Atrium Pragmatic altruism Fabric of hope: the Life Quilt for Breast Cancer Reading, writing and resuscitation

	Sur_le_Net@cma.ca · On_the_Net@cma.ca
95	The Web's future? Ask the man who invented it, R. Patterson

	Chroniques · Features
97	Code of silence hardest part of being sued, FPs say, L. Cohen [full text]
99	Angry scientists fight university's attempt to affiliate with chiropractic college, T. Johnson [full text]

	Gens de cœur · Heart and Soul
160	An anesthetist of a different Order, L. Cohen [full text]