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JAMC

le 25 janvier 2000 / January 25, 2000

JAMC 2000; 162(2)

© 2000 Association médicale canadienne / Canadian Medical Association


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Dans ce numéro · In this issue

    Communiqué de presse
    Sujets d'intérêt

  Éditorial · Editorial
181 No pain, no gain? [HTML / PDF]
183 Pas de résultat sans douleur? [HTML / PDF]

Couverture :
Dans ce numéro, Anne Holbrook et ses collaborateurs nous parlent de l'insomnie, symptôme courant d'affections sous-jacentes (page 216), et passent en revue les avantages et les risques liés à un traitement aux benzodiazépines (page 225).

Insomnie et le traitement aux benzodiazépines

189 Correspondance ˇ Letters [HTML / PDF]
Directives aux correspondants
 
  • MRC's support of clinical trials
  • Funding medical care
  • Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
  • Real-world effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs
  • Anticoagulant therapy
  • Tuition fees for residents
  • Non-heart-beating organ donation

  Recherche ˇ Research
195 To pay or not to pay? A decision and cost­utility analysis of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor therapy for diabetic nephropathy
W.F. Clark, D.N. Churchill, L. Forwell, G. Macdonald, S. Foster
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
199 Blood recipient notification for hepatitis C in Prince Edward Island
L.D. Van Til, L.E. Sweet
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

  Exposés de recherche ˇ Research letters
206 Telemedicine and fetal ultrasonography in a remote Newfoundland community
E.R. Reddy, P.J. Bartlett, J.D.M. Harnett, P.J. McManamon, C. Snelgrove
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
207 The seroprevalence of hepatitis A and B in people testing positive for hepatitis C
L.A. Kiefer, A. Honish, G. Predy, J.A. Talbot
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

  Commentaire ˇ Commentary
209 The need for greater involvement of regulatory agencies in assessing adverse drug reactions
A.D. Sniderman
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
210 HIV testing of patients: Let's waive the waiver
M.W. Tyndall, M.T. Schechter
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
212 Scientific harassment by pharmaceutical companies: time to stop
D. Hailey
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

  Synthèse ˇ Review
216 The diagnosis and management of insomnia in clinical practice: a practical evidence-based approach
A.M. Holbrook, R. Crowther, A. Lotter, C. Cheng, D. King
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
225 Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of insomnia
A.M. Holbrook, R. Crowther, A. Lotter, C. Cheng, D. King
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
236 Chasing the dragon — neurological toxicity associated with inhalation of heroin vapour: case report
M.D. Hill, P.W. Cooper, J.R. Perry
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
239 A view inside the womb
G. Graves
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
241 Mechanical ventilation: What's new when your patient is blue?
J.T. Granton, A.S. Slutsky
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

243 Nouvelles et analyses ˇ News and analysis
[HTML / PDF]
 
  • Dialysis in Quebec
  • Keon resigns
  • London's groundbreaking surgeons
  • E. coli at a fall fair
  • Harassment of faculty
  • Re-entry positions
  • Regulating telemedicine
  • Surgery and smoking
  • Research Update:
    • Say goodbye to medicine as you know it
    • Poor people and poor health
  Sur_le_Net@cma.ca · On_the_Net@cma.ca
251 Another OSLER contest
D. Green
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
255 Population rises dramatically but number of med-school applicants remains stagnant
B. Sibbald
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
256 BC's Chinese migrants a healthy lot, MDs find
H. Kent
[full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

257 De l'Oreille Gauche ˇ The Left Atrium
[HTML / PDF]
 
  • A brief history of medicine (book review by P. Warren)
  • J. McSherry remembers a plain-spoken patient
  • Poetry by R.C. Dickson
  • Dalhousie students reflect on Alzheimer's disease

303 Deaths ˇ Nécrologie

  Gens de cœur ˇ Heart and Soul
304 Part of the family in northern Quebec
S. Pinker
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