May 5, 1998 / le 5 mai 1998

CMAJ 1998; 158(9)

© 1998 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

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Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

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News and analysis Biological weapons threat leads to inoculations for sailors Emergency medicine's reach expands Now here's truth in advertising! Jerusalem's history overwhelms some visitors CMA honours Manitoba medical pioneer Dr. Gordon Fahrni with bust Newsflash: it's unhealthy to be poor MDs still confused about patient access to medical records Cool site

1127	Research Update · Le point sur la recherche Preventing stress-ulcer bleeding during mechanical ventilation Canada versus the US: health care still slower, still cheaper In the news... Melanoma vaccines Turning off chronic pain More evidence on calcium-channel blocker and cancer

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Letters · Correspondance Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants AIDS in Africa, M. Tectonidis; response: K. Chan A side effect of protease inhibitors, J. Teitel Applause for Dr. Romalis, G.D. Posner Advance directives for insulin-using diabetic patients, E.L. Toth, S. Gill, D. Godkin, K.C. Lee Breast cancer guidelines, L. Mahoney, P. Rasuli; response: M. McGregor Updating the insulin lispro file, L.D. Grossman; response: E.L. Toth In defence of the military, R. Shepherd

Cover: Who uses food banks, now so familiar on the urban scene? Linda Jacobs Starkey and colleagues found, somewhat surprisingly, that the typical users in a random sample from Montreal were not necessarily the most vulnerable in society (page 1143). Couverture : Qui utilise les banques d'aliments, si omniprésentes dans les panoramas urbains? Linda Jacobs Starkey et ses collègues ont découvert, non sans surprise, que les utilisateurs typiques dans un échantillon aléatoire à Montréal n'étaient pas nécessairement les plus vulnérables de la société (page 1143).

	Evidence · Études
1137	Coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Newfoundland and Labrador, G.A. Fox, J. O'Dea, P.S. Parfrey [abstract / résumé]
1143	Food bank users: sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics, L. Jacobs Starkey, H.V. Kuhnlein, K. Gray-Donald [full text / résumé]

	Editorial · Éditorial
1151	Benchmarking the provision of coronary artery surgery, C.D. Naylor [full text]

	Education · Éducation
1157	Unconventional therapies for cancer: 3. Iscador, E. Kaegi, on behalf of the Task Force on Alternative Therapies of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative [full text]
1161	A patient's guide to choosing unconventional therapies, E. Kaegi [full text]

	Experience · Expérience
1167	Family ties, R. Goldbloom, A. Goldbloom, D. Goldbloom [full text]

	Public health · Santé publique
1171	Wrestling hyperthermia and dehydration [full text]
1172	La lutte contre l'hyperthermie et la déshydratation [texte complet]

	Features · Chroniques
1176	Hemophilia society warns MDs: bleeding disorders not a male domain, B. Sibbald [full text / résumé]
1178	Secondhand-smoke story goes up in flames, C. Gray [full text / résumé]
1181	Cameras becoming ER physicians' courts' allies, H. Kent [full text]
1184	Postgraduate training in US only option for some Canadian MDs seeking retraining, S. Robertson
1187	Dr. Jon Gerrard's attention switches from federal cabinet to evidence-based child care, D. Square [full text / résumé]
1189	Brother, can you spare $1 000 000?, H. Kent [full text / résumé]

	CMA Policy Summary · Sommaire de politique de l'AMC
1191	Physician health and well-being
1196	La santé et le mieux-être des médecins

1202	Books and other media · Livres et autres documents

1203	On_the_Net@cma.ca · Sur_le_Net@cma.ca    Do we need peer review on the 'Net?

1247	Deaths · Nécrologie

	Pulse · Médicogramme
1248	How hard do physicians work? / Les médecins travaillent-ils fort?