October 23, 2007, Volume 177, Issue 9
Editorial

   Global poverty is ours to reject

Amir Attaran LLB DPhil
CMAJ 2007 177: 999-1000.
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Éditorial

   La pauvreté mondiale : ŕ nous de la faire reculer

Amir Attaran LLB DPhil
CMAJ 2007 177: 1003-1004.
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Highlights of this issue

   Highlights of this issue

CMAJ 2007 177: 1007.
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News

Poverty and human development

   The North "like Darfur"

Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2007 177: 1013-1014.
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   Shelter from the mental storm

Laura Eggertson
CMAJ 2007 177: 1015.
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   Building health services in the world's poorest nations

Sharan Prakash Sharma MBBS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1016.
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   Faster malaria testing

Sanjit Bagchi MBBS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1016.
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   US$58 million grant to fight yellow fever in Africa

Wairagala Wakabi
CMAJ 2007 177: 1017.
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   "Homophobia is fuelling the AIDS epidemic in Africa"

Wairagala Wakabi
CMAJ 2007 177: 1017.
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Dispatches from the medical front

   Qallunatt

Tom Kovesi
CMAJ 2007 177: 1018.
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   Mzungu

Melissa Vyvey
CMAJ 2007 177: 1018-1019.
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   Measles

Wendy Lai
CMAJ 2007 177: 1019.
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   Getting involved: donating time, money and expertise to global health

Lisa Bryden
CMAJ 2007 177: 1020-1021.
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   Odd numbers: food banks and liposuction

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 1022.
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Practice

   Public Health: Release of the statement on influenza for the 2007-2008 season from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization

Joanne M. Langley MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1025-1026.
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Clinical Vistas Briefs

   Chronic post-thoracotomy pain syndrome

Bruno M. Strebel MD, Steffen Ross MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1027, 1029.
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   Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis

Dimitrios-Anestis Moutzouris MD, Andreas Soloukides MD, Christos Peppas MD, Valsamakis Hadjiconstantinou MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1027, 1029.
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   Retroperitoneal fibrosis

Anastasios Koulaouzidis MD, Shivaram Bhat MBChB, Karthy Gopal MBBS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1027, 1030.
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   CMAJ Public Health Fact Sheet: Influenza and the influenza vaccine

Noni MacDonald MD MSc, Erica Weir MD MSc, Joanne M. Langley MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1028.
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Research

Changes in survival among elderly patients initiating dialysis from 1990 to 1999

Sarbjit Vanita Jassal MB BCh MD, Lilyanna Trpeski MPH MD, Naisu Zhu MD, Stanley Fenton MD, Brenda Hemmelgarn PhD MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1033-1038.
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Association between proximity to the attending nephrologist and mortality among patients receiving hemodialysis

Marcello Tonelli MD SM, Braden Manns MD MSc, Bruce Culleton MD MSc, Scott Klarenbach MD MSc, Brenda Hemmelgarn MD PhD, Natasha Wiebe MMath PStat, John S. Gill MD MSc, for the Alberta Kidney Disease Network
CMAJ 2007 177: 1039-1044.
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Special Report

Health research funding: Members' of Parliament knowledge of and attitudes toward health research and funding

Daniel R. Clark BSc, Patrick J. McGrath PhD, Noni MacDonald MD MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1045-1051.
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Commentary

   Research: Mortality trends among Canadian patients receiving dialysis

Robert N. Foley MB MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1055-1056.
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   Special report: The future of health research is hanging in the balance

Christopher J. Paige PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1057-1058.
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Poverty and human development

   Poverty and chronic diseases in Asia: challenges and opportunities

Prabhat Jha MD DPhil, Zhengming Chen MD DPhil
CMAJ 2007 177: 1059-1062.
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   The health of the public is the foundation of prosperity: the work of the Public Health Agency of Canada at home and around the world

David Butler-Jones MD MHSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1063-1064.
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   Homelessness and health

Jeffrey Turnbull MD MEd, Wendy Muckle RN MHA, Christina Masters BSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1065-1066.
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Letters

   Screening men for osteoporosis

Dara Behroozi MB BS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1069.
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   Screening men for osteoporosis

Aliya A. Khan MD, Anthony B. Hodsman MB BS, Alexandra Papaioannou MSc MD, David Kendler MD, Jacques P. Brown MD, Wojciech P. Olszynski MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1069-1070.
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   Accuracy of point-of-care measurements

Philippe G. Jorens MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1070.
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The Left Atrium

Room for a view: 

   Rich man, poor woman; rich woman, poor man

Gretchen Roedde MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1071-1072.
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   Bridging the political divide

A. Mark Clarfield MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1072-1073.
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   Book review: Guidance for the globally minded physician

Brodie Ramin MPhil
CMAJ 2007 177: 1074.
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Deaths

   Deaths

CMAJ 2007 177:1147.
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Salon

   Reconsidering survival

Mark Leith MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1148.
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