January 12, 1999 / le 12 janvier 1999

CMAJ 1999; 160(1)

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Press release

Highlights of this issue

5 7	Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

Cover: National Non-Smoking Week, Jan. 18 to 25, is an opportunity for smokers to throw off the shackles of their addiction. Frederic Bass urges the federal government to free itself from its addiction to tobacco tax revenues (page 61).

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News and analysis · Nouvelles et analyses 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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Letters · Correspondance Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants 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]

	Evidence · Études
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]

	Editorials · Éditoriaux
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]

	Education · Éducation
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]

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

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

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

	Features · Chroniques
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]

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