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Cover: Asbestos has been the subject of debate in occupational health and environmental circles for several decades. In this issue, the Collegium Ramazzini calls for a ban on all mining and use of asbestos (page 489). Michel Camus (page 491) and Jack Siemiatycki (page 495) see things differently.

	Editorial • Éditorial
453	A ban on asbestos: Is now the time? [HTML / PDF]
455	Interdiction de l'amiante : Le moment est-il venu? [HTML / PDF]

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Letters • Correspondance Instructions to correspondents Narcotics for chronic nonmalignant pain S.C. Bodley [PDF] Thwarting sore throats J.L. Cosby; M. Levine; response: W.J. McIsaac, et al [PDF] Remote versus urban medical training R. MacDonald; W. Eaton; response: R.J. McKendry [PDF] Unwanted freebies L. Buffett, W. McCormick [PDF] A drug by any other name A. Gold; response: J. Hoey [PDF] The best things in life are free ... at least, some of them are J.E. Till [PDF] Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: adjuvant systemic therapy for node-negative breast cancer (summary of the 2001 update) [Correction]

	Research • Recherche
469	Preventive health care, 2001 update: screening mammography among women aged 40–49 years at average risk of breast cancer J. Ringash, with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care [HTML / PDF]
	Le point sur les soins de santé préventifs en l'an 2001 : le dépistage du cancer du sein au moyen de la mammographie chez les femmes de 40 à 49 ans exposées à un risque moyen J. Ringash et le Groupe d'étude canadien sur les soins de santé préventifs [HTML / PDF]
479	Physicians' prevention practices and incidence of neonatal group B streptococcal disease in 2 Canadian regions H.D. Davies, C.E. Adair, A. Schuchat, D.E. Low, R.S. Sauve, A. McGeer, the Alberta Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Network and the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network [HTML / PDF]

	Commentary • Commentaire
489	A call for an international ban on asbestos J. LaDou, P. Landrigan, J.C. Bailar III, V. Foa, A. Frank, on behalf of the Collegium Ramazzini [HTML / PDF]
491	A ban on asbestos must be based on a comparative risk assessment M. Camus [HTML / PDF]
495	Should Canadian health care professionals support the call for a worldwide ban on asbestos? J. Siemiatycki [HTML / PDF]
498	Screening mammography for women aged 40–49: Are we off the fence yet? M.B. Barton [HTML / PDF]

	Review • Synthèse
503	Environment and health: 9. The science of risk assessment J.C. Bailar III, A.J. Bailer [HTML / PDF]
509	Bioethics for clinicians: 23. Disclosure of medical error P.C. Hébert, A.V. Levin, G. Robertson [HTML / PDF]
517	The management of hypertension in Canada: a review of current guidelines, their shortcomings and implications for the future F.A. McAlister, N.R.C. Campbell, K. Zarnke, M. Levine, I.D. Graham [HTML / PDF]

527	The Left Atrium • De l'Oreille Gauche [HTML]
	Good people in bad systems (book review by D.J. Doyle) [PDF] The pharmaceutical art of Colleen Wolstenholme (review by D. Moulton) [PDF] Office visit (by Emily Carr) [PDF] M. Clarfield takes his gas mask to the mall [PDF] D. Francis digs up some dirt on a grave subject [PDF]

531	News • Nouvelles
	Making the difficult leap from academic to clinical ethics [HTML / PDF] Doctors asked to take pledge to shun drug company freebies [HTML / PDF] Pulse: Canada ranks near top in health spending: OECD [HTML / PDF] Private PET-scanning clinic opens in Vancouver [HTML / PDF] Cigarettes leave you breathless [HTML / PDF] Asbestos manufacturers dodge litigation [HTML / PDF] Angry medical examiners withdraw services in Manitoba [HTML / PDF] Crackdown on hospital incinerators coming soon [HTML / PDF] "Viagra" finds ready market in China [HTML / PDF] CMAJ no longer just a Canadian journal, eCMAJ survey indicates [HTML / PDF] Saskatoon firm wins country's first contract to cultivate medical marijuana [HTML / PDF] The epidemiology of murder: UK physician responsible for 345 deaths? [HTML / PDF] On the Net: A cornucopia of medical images on the Net [HTML / PDF] Participation "pathetic" in hospital-based energy-saving program [HTML / PDF] Clinical Update: No link between cellular-phone use and brain tumours? [HTML / PDF] Public Health: Botulism in Canada [HTML / PDF]

607	Deaths • Nécrologie

	Heart & Soul • Gens de cœur
608	Cross-border medicine D. Moulton [HTML / PDF]

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