CMAJ's On the Net column follows the rapidly evolving Internet and its effects on physicians and health care. This column, which appears in every issue of the journal, is written by CMA staff and Internet specialists, including physicians. Among the trends and developments in the new health care resource known as the Web, we pay particular attention to sites and issues related to patients. In this way, CMAJ helps inform physicians of issues before their own patients raise them.

• Medical error and patient safety
• PDAs and medicine
• Open-source medical software on the net
• An online gold mine for medical students
• Dissecting on the Internet
• Carpal tunnel syndrome and computers
• Putting a human face on neurologic illness
• Occupational health finds a home on the Net

Volume 164

• Assessing health technology assessment
• Health4Kids
• Virtually there: take a medical school tour without leaving home
• MDs' "no Nukes" movement moves online
• Down a dark (carpal) tunnel
• What patients want from your Web site
• A textbook case for online searching
• Build a simple Web site for your practice in less than an hour
• The Internet and genetic disease
• A cornucopia of medical images on the Net
• Multilingual medicine in the global village
• Evidence-based medicine in the Palm of your hand
• Going green? Go online

Volume 163

• The medicine–literature connection moves online
• Debating medicare from the left and right
• Letting your fingers do the walking to a new job
• Worshipping at the altar of the Palm Pilot
• An interactive approach to treating prostate cancer
• An interactive approach to treating prostate cancer
• Medical matchmaking on the Internet
• Online information and support for depressed patients
• Any doctors hiding in the family tree?
• Are more online conferences on the way?
• Internet addicts can get online help
• Sleep-deprived patients turning to Web for help

Volume 162

• Raving on the Internet
• Helping patients untangle a Web of misinformation
• Online lifeline for med school applicants
• Hints for MEDLINE searching
• New and improved: CMA's guidelines infobase now at MDs' fingertips
• An atlas of the brain, online
• Litigation online
• Popularity growing rapidly as CMA Online turns 5
• Women's health care rides an Internet wave
• Quack watchers casting wider net
• MD recruiting goes online
• Another contest from your friends at OSLER
• Outfitting a medical office online

Volume 161

• MCC readies a new, computerized medical qualifying exam
• Developing a code of conduct for the Web
• Broadcasting comes to the Internet
• Major money starting to flow on the Web
• The virtual Dr. Osler
• It's wise to immunize, regardless of what the Web says
• Get ready for online sales of prescription drugs
• Pulling the shades on Internet data thieves
• Borders mean nothing with CMA's virtual hospital corridor
• eCMAJ: evolving at your suggestion
• Sorry, thebest.md is gone, but canuck.md still available

Volume 160

• Your secrets aren't sacred
• Mapping your way through MEDLINE
• Finally, a medical text that's never out of date
• CMA Online: usage triples in a year
• Smile, your name may be online
• 285 days and counting . . .
• Is Internet-based disease management on the way?
• OSLER marks first birthday with contest
• CME looks toward the Internet
• CMA Online opens a (virtual) doctors' lounge
• The Internet comes to Africa
• Breast cancer online: helping patients navigate the Web
• The Web's future? Ask the man who invented it