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Cover: Inuit infants in the Baffin Region have a very high rate of severe lower respiratory tract infections, often requiring mechanical ventilation, according to a study by Anna Banerji and colleagues (page 1847). The authors call for public health attention to this issue.

	Editorial • Éditorial
1825	Canada's commitment to AIDS relief in Africa [HTML / PDF]
1827	Engagement du Canada à soulager le sida en Afrique [HTML / PDF]

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Letters • Correspondance Instructions to correspondents Uncertainty about clinical equipoise F. Rolleston [HTML / PDF]; I. Shrier [HTML / PDF]; response: D.L. Sackett [HTML / PDF] The value of industry-sponsored studies of initial antihypertensive therapies J.J. Caro, K. Payne [HTML / PDF]; response: J.M. Wright [HTML / PDF] Lithotripsy comes to Ottawa ... at last J.E. Mahoney [HTML / PDF] A time series would have been better C. van Walraven, A.J. Forster [HTML / PDF]

	Research • Recherche
1837	Preventive health care, 2001 update: Should women be routinely taught breast self-examination to screen for breast cancer? N. Baxter, with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care [HTML / PDF]
1847	Lower respiratory tract infections in Inuit infants on Baffin Island A. Banerji, A. Bell, E.L. Mills, J. McDonald, K. Subbarao, G. Stark, N. Eynon, V.G. Loo [HTML / PDF]

	Commentary • Commentaire
1851	Is it time to stop teaching breast self-examination? L. Nekhlyudov, S.W. Fletcher [HTML / PDF]
1853	Creating a Canadian stroke system E. Wilson, G. Taylor, S. Phillips, P.J. Stewart, G. Dickinson, V.R. Ramsden, R.W. Teasell, N. Mayo, J. Tu, S. Elson, B. Strauss, on behalf of the Canadian Stroke Systems Coalition [HTML / PDF]
1856	Changing course in electronic seas: rapid publication of brief recommendation statements by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care J.W. Feightner [HTML / PDF]
	Changement de cap et navigation électronique : Publication accélérée des recommandations sommaires du Groupe d'étude canadien sur les soins de santé préventifs J.W. Feightner [HTML / PDF]
1857	Antiretroviral therapy cannot be South Africa's first priority D.J. Ncayiyana [HTML / PDF]
1859	Measured words: announcing the winners of the first CMAJ Essay Prize A.M. Todkill [HTML / PDF]
	Occasional Essays • Réflexions
1860	Osler vindicated: the ghost of Flexner laid to rest A. Rae [HTML / PDF]
1862	Humanitarian aid and medical research: an illusion of dichotomy in international health D.E. Roth [HTML / PDF]

	Review • Synthèse
1868	Appropriate procedures for the safe handling and pathologic examination of technetium-99m–labelled specimens T.J. Colgan, D. Booth, A. Hendler, D. McCready [HTML / PDF]

1872	The Left Atrium • De l'oreille gauche [HTML]
	V. Hanlon reviews Ron Charach's poems in mid-air [PDF] Kerri Lambert struggles with transformation [PDF] I wish ... [PDF] Bedrest [PDF] Death-defying memories sustain a father lost in time [PDF] Creative convalescence [PDF]

1877	News • Nouvelles
	University "tainted" by tobacco money, BMJ editor resigns teaching post [HTML / PDF] Liver damage main reason drugs pulled from market [HTML / PDF] Female MDs face greater suicide risk: study [HTML / PDF] Use computerized systems to cut adverse drug events: report [HTML / PDF] Brain drain? Maybe not [HTML / PDF] Nurse practitioners may reduce FP burden in Nova Scotia [HTML / PDF] Hospital denies that withdrawal of MD's job offer was related to drug-company funding [HTML / PDF] This deal stinks, Russian surgeon complains [HTML / PDF] On the Net: Assessing health technology assessment [HTML / PDF] Caseloads may be responsible for regional differences in care: CIHI report [HTML / PDF] Is Canada smoked out? [HTML / PDF] Ontario's desperate need for rural MDs reason for new medical school [HTML / PDF] Pulse: Injuries claim lives of many more boys than girls [HTML / PDF] Clinical Update: Lifestyle changes can prevent the development of diabetes mellitus [HTML / PDF] Preventive Health Care: Varicella vaccination [HTML / PDF] [Français] Public Health: The health impact of crowd-control agents [HTML / PDF]

1939	Deaths • Nécrologie

1940	Heart & Soul • Gens de cœur
	Eighteen months, 12 suicides H. Kent [HTML / PDF]

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