Canadian Medical Association Journal / Journal de l'Association médicale canadienne Sept. 15, 1997 / Le 15 sept. 1997 CMAJ 1997; 157 (6) © 1997 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Atrial fibrillation and stroke: new research

In this issue · Dans ce numéro 625 627 Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef 631 News and analysis · Nouvelles et analyses "Dr. Peter" lives on through AIDS daycare centre Passport guarantors: if you sign, do not bill Wanted: more Newfoundland MDs Cost of workplace injuries soars Search-and-rescue team attracts BC physician CMA honours 2 medical pioneers, administrator Shortage of pediatric ophthalmologists Lean, mean metabolic machine Social isolation and the common cold Hormone replacement therapy, heart disease and breast cancer Spinal cord injury: time is of the essence The search for clues to early-stage ovarian cancer 637 Letters · Correspondance [Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants] Patient or client? If in doubt, ask, N. Futter A message for the "human medical community", D. Petersen, E. Petersen; M. Macartney Relief from pain, not from life, W. Kreyes; response: J.V. Lavery, P.A. Singer Gender sensitivity a sensitive issue, J.H. Walters; L.J. Clein; L.S. Glass; P.G. Cox; K.L. Maudie; response: S. Phillips Brave new world of gender-inclusive language, E. Berger; response: G. Guyatt, et al Paradigms found, G.W. Jones, J. Wright Éducation en éthique : expérience et réflexion éthique, S.P. Ahern Responding to diversity, P.J. Potter Choosing the rural route, P. Newbery; G. Hollway, et al Making career choices easier, D. Omahen Error corrected, conclusions the same, I. Singh, J. Hagey Bringing guidelines to the people, D.C.F. Muir Residents and suicide: Lessons to be learned?, R. J. Fingerote Offshore medical schools, I. Porzecanski Healing body and mind, N. Hershfield   Evidence · Études 653 Guidelines for the use of carotid endarterectomy: current recommendations from the Canadian Neurosurgical Society, J.M. Findlay, W.S. Tucker, G.G. Ferguson, R.O. Holness, M.C. Wallace, J.H. Wong [full text / résumé] 663 Emergency physicians and sexual involvement with patients: an Ontario survey, H.J. Ovens, J.A. Permaul-Woods [abstract / résumé] 673 Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: evidence for a prothrombotic state, S.R. Kahn, S. Solymoss, K.M. Flegel [full text / résumé] 685 Increased tissue plasminogen activator level in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, S.R. Kahn, S. Solymoss, K.M. Flegel [full text / résumé]   Editorials · Éditoriaux 693 Carotid endarterectomy: applying trial results in clinical practice, P.M. Walker [full text / résumé] 695 Atrial fibrillation and stroke: what we know, what's new, and what we should do now, C.S. Landefeld [full text / résumé] 701 Bus rounds: a new approach to community-based medical education, J.F. Seely [abstract / résumé] 705 A dangerous duo? A combination of common diet drugs (fen-phen) may lead to heart valve disease, D.R. Boughner [full text / résumé] 709 Hypertension in pregnancy: new recommendations for management, P. Hamet [full text / résumé]   Education · Éducation 715 Report of the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference: 1. Definitions, evaluation and classification of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, M.E. Helewa, R.F. Burrows, J. Smith, K. Williams, P. Brain, S.W. Rabkin [full text / résumé] 729 Bus rounds for palliative care education in the community, E. Bruera, P. Selmser, J. Pereira, C. Brenneis [abstract / résumé] 737 Lawsuits over laser patents raise serious issues for physicians, patients, K. Capen, A. Kothari [full text]   Experience · Expérience 741 Confronting despair: the Holocaust survivor's struggle with ordinary life and ordinary death, R. Krell   Public health · Santé publique 747 The facts of lice [full text] 748 Des poux et des hommes . . . [texte complet]   Features · Chroniques 750 MDs remain sceptical as chelation therapy goes mainstream in Saskatchewan, M. Oliver [full text / en bref] 757 Death in a Halifax hospital: a murder case highlights a profession's divisions, N. Robb [full text / en bref] 763 Legalized MD-assisted suicide needed to improve care, physician tells right-to-die group, A. Elash [full text / en bref] 767 Excess demand meets excess supply as referral companies link Canadian patients, US hospitals, M. Korcok [full text / en bref] 771 Medical examiners' seminar looked at mysteries surrounding sudden death, D. Grant 773 Call of the wild a strong lure for Yukon physicians, A. Tempelman-Kluit [abstract / en bref] 778 With a system in turmoil, will there be enough blood?, C. Gray [full text / en bref] 782 CMA revisits privatization issue, says "No thanks" once again, S. Wharry [full text / en bref] 851 Deaths · Nécrologie   Pulse · Médicogramme 852 What are specialists doing? / Que font les spécialistes? 788 Books and other media · Livres et autres documents Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM The Medical management of AIDS in Women Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues -- Out of the Present and Into the Future Au pays de la bioéthique : L'éthique biomédicale aux États-Unis 785 On_the_Net@cma.ca · Sur_le_Net@cma.ca Resources · Ressources 792 Unvarnished viewpoints and scientific scrutiny: letters to the editors provide a forum for readers and help make a journal accountable to the medical community, C.J. Brown [full text] 792 Points de vue non embellis et examen scientifique : Les lettres à la rédaction constituent une tribune pour les lecteurs et elles obligent un journal à rendre compte à la communauté médicale, C.J. Brown [texte complet] 795 Conferences · Conférences 796 Advertisers' index · Index des annonceurs 797 Prescribing index · Index de l'information sur les ordonnances 841 Service information · Renseignements aux lecteurs 842 Classified advertising · Annonces classées   ISSN 0820-3946 157 (6) 621­852 (1997)