October 9, 2007, Volume 177, Issue 8   
Editorial   

   Getting serious about Canadian health research
Matthew B. Stanbrook MD PhD, Paul C. Hébert MD MHSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 825.
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Éditorial   

   La recherche en santé au Canada : un peu de sérieux
Matthew B. Stanbrook MD PhD, Paul C. Hébert MD MHSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 827.
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Highlights of this issue   

   Highlights of this issue
CMAJ 2007 177: 831.
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News   

   Troubled Afghan hospital needs Canadian SWAT team
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 837-839.
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   Vaccine-autism link discounted, but effect of "study" is unknown
Dan Lett
CMAJ 2007 177: 841.
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   US Medicare will stop paying for preventable errors
Janet Brooks
CMAJ 2007 177: 841-842.
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   Behind the News: Exit interview with Dr. Alan Bernstein
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 844-845.
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   Pulse: Fertility rates and gross national incomes per capita
Pulse:
Mark O. Baerlocher MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 846.
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   News@ a glance
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 846-847.
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Practice   

   Teaching Case Report: A potentially preventable case of serious influenza infection in a pregnant patient
Michael D. Parkins MD MSc, Kevin Fonseca PhD, Adam D. Peets MD MSc, Kevin B. Laupland MD MSc, Khaled Shamseddin MD, M. John Gill MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 851-853.
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   Clinical Vistas: Phrynoderma: a cutaneous sign of an inadequate diet
Alessandro Di Stefani MD, Augusto Orlandi MD, Sergio Chimenti MD, Luca Bianchi MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 855-867.
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Research   

One-year follow-up of a therapeutic lifestyle intervention targeting cardiovascular disease risk
Andrew Wister PhD, Nadine Loewen MD, Holly Kennedy-Symonds MHSc, Brian McGowan MD, Bonnie McCoy MA, Joel Singer PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 859-865.
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Effect of perindopril on physical function in elderly people with functional impairment: a randomized controlled trial
Deepa Sumukadas MBBS MD, Miles D. Witham MBChB PhD, Allan D. Struthers MBChB MD, Marion E.T. McMurdo MBChB MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 867-874.
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Predictors of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing among primary care physicians
Genevieve Cadieux MSc, Robyn Tamblyn PhD, Dale Dauphinee MD, Michael Libman MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 877-883.
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Commentary   

   Research: Therapeutic lifestyle and disease-management interventions: pushing the scientific envelope
David A. Alter MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 887-889.
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   Research: Is there a new role for angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors in elderly patients?
Ann Cranney MD MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 891-892.
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   Research: Revenge of the killer microbe
Sandra R. Arnold MD MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 895-896.
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Letters   

   Analyzing the risks of cesarean delivery
Vincent V. Richman PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 899.
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   Treatment of septic arthritis
Cheryl Main MD BSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 899.
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   Treatment of septic arthritis
Raheem B. Kherani MD BSc(Pharm), Kam Shojania MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 899-900.
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   Health Canada's new standards on conflict of interest
Neil Yeates MA
CMAJ 2007 177: 900.
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   Health Canada's new standards on conflict of interest
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 900.
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   Whose responsibility is it?
James Goodwin MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 900-901.
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   Correction
CMAJ 2007 177: 901.
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The Left Atrium   

   Room for a view: Death: one, Medicine: no score
Stephen Strauss BA
CMAJ 2007 177: 903-904.
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   Book review: Of kings and alchemy
Ian Ross MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 904-905.
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Deaths   

   Deaths
CMAJ 2007 177:987.
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Salon   

   Reefer madness
Margret Kopala
CMAJ 2007 177: 988.
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