March 23, 1999 / le 23 mars 1999

CMAJ 1999; 160(6)

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Press release

Highlights of this issue

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Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

Cover: Tuberculosis, once relegated to the past, at least in North America, is resurging in a variety of high-risk groups. We mark World Tuberculosis Day (Mar. 24) with reports from the front lines of TB medicine (pages 789, 799 and 821) and the début of our Clinical Basics series on this disease (page 837).

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News and analysis · Nouvelles et analyses The smoking-cessation movement moves to the bedside Canadians travel "Viagra Highway" to US as drug's release delayed Too many handicapped-parking permits, too few parking spots? Former CMAJ editor dies Coronary care challenges explored in inaugural Keon Lecture In the news . . . Ontario raises bar for RNs No to gay "reparative" therapies Pulse: Our incredible shrinking medical schools Cool sites

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Letters · Correspondance Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants Funding medicare, J.S. Aldis; W.H. Palmer, response: M. Gordon Emergency stroke care, L.M. Picard, response: C. Hodgson Psychobiology of stroke: a neglected area, R. Ramasubbu; S. Simpson, S. Patten Does the CMA's privacy code go too far? Or far enough?, M.M. Finkelstein; E. Wiebe, response: H. Scully The myth of freedom from conflict of interest, S.L. Sacks, response: T. Lemmens Rehabilitation and stroke, R.L. Kirby Signs of physical abuse or evidence of moxibustion, cupping or coining?, H.C.G. Wong, et al Contact tracing for pertussis, D.F. Ross, P. Pogonat-Bourque

	Evidence · Études
789	Outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in the tertiary care setting — Toronto 1992/93, W. Wobeser, L. Yuan, M. Naus, and the Tuberculosis Treatment Completion Study Group [full text / résumé]
799	Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among injection drug users in Toronto, I.D. Rusen, L. Yuan, M.E. Millson [full text / résumé]
805	Direct costs of coronary artery bypass grafting in patients aged 65 years or more and those under age 65, G. Naglie, C. Tansey, M.D. Krahn, K. O'Rourke, A.S. Detsky, H. Bolley [abstract / résumé]

	Research letters · Exposés de recherche
815	Provision of intrapartum care by GP/FPs in Canada: an update, C. Levitt, J. Kaczorowski [full text]
816	Alternative and complementary medicine in Canadian medical schools: a survey, J. Ruedy, D.M. Kaufman, H. MacLeod [full text]
818	Body size, not sex, is responsible for differences in type of dialysis, C. Florakas, M. Godwin, R. Morton, R. Wilson, E. Toffelmire [full text]

	Editorials · Éditoriaux
821	Optimizing tuberculosis control in the inner city, J.M. FitzGerald [full text]
823	Coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients: the price of success, E.A. Cohen [full text]
825	Research letters in CMAJ, K.S. Joseph, J. Hoey [full text]
826	Improving outcomes for patients with schizophrenia: new hope for an old illness, M.V. Seeman [full text]
828	Sex or body size? Selection of dialysis type revisited, A. Levin [full text]

	Education · Éducation
833	Prostate cancer: 13. Whose prostate is it anyway? The view from the other side of the examining table, R.E. Gray, A. Philbrook [full text]
837	Tuberculosis: 1. Introduction, A. Fanning [full text in HTML / full text in PDF]
843	Improving outcome in schizophrenia: the case for early intervention, A.K. Malla, R.M.G. Norman, L.P. Voruganti [full text]
849	An appreciation of A.E. Malloch, MB, MD (1844–1919): a forgotten surgical pioneer, J.K. Houston [full text / résumé]
857	Active and passive euthanasia: the cases of Drs. Claudio Alberto de la Rocha and Nancy Morrison, D. Gorman [full text / in brief]

	Public health · Santé publique
865	Mumps in the era of vaccines, C.E. Caplan [full text]

869	The Left Atrium · De l'Oreille Gauche Why I am not a futilitarian The peculiar genius of John Nash The rookie The leucotome Gut reaction

	On_the_Net@cma.ca · Sur_le_Net@cma.ca
873	OSLER marks first birthday with contest, D. Green

	Features · Chroniques
877	Huge court fight may be in offing as Ontario college considers penalty for maverick MD, C. Gray [full text / in brief]
883	Antivaccine advocates line up to support airman, R. Cairney [full text]
884	How many concussions are too many?, H. Kent [full text]
885	Dictation software: We're not there yet, R. Patterson [full text]
889	Military set to offer large signing bonuses, higher pay in face of unprecedented MD staffing crisis, P. Sullivan [full text]
892	Lack of time for communication creating "cycles of misinformation" about use of antibiotics, H. Kent
894	Protease inhibitors raising quality-of-life issues for HIV patients, A. Silversides
896	Every MD will soon have unique "cradle-to-grave" identifying number, S. Wharry [full text]
898	Calgary home to country's first comprehensive vascular birthmark clinic, B. Sibbald

	Heart and Soul · Gens de cœur
964	Taking a stand where others won't, A. Silversides [full text]