December 4, 2007, Volume 177, Issue 12   
Editorial   

   Food for all
Gerard Kennedy
CMAJ 2007 177: 1473.
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Éditorial   

   À manger pour tous
Gerard Kennedy
CMAJ 2007 177: 1475.
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Highlights of this issue   

   Highlights of this issue
CMAJ 2007 177: 1479.
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News   

   Ideological chasms divide US presidential hopefuls
Janet Rae Brooks
CMAJ 2007 177: 1484-1486.
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   India moves to improve black fever tracking
Sanjit Bagchi MBBS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1486.
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   Prescribing patterns drive up health care costs
Elizabeth Howell
CMAJ 2007 177: 1487.
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   Searching for solutions to the North's quiet epidemic
Natalie Dunleavy
CMAJ 2007 177: 1488.
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   West Nile rates soar in 2007
Shawna Lessard
CMAJ 2007 177: 1489.
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   Gairdner winners honoured at Toronto symposium
Elizabeth Howell
CMAJ 2007 177: 1489-1490.
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   News @ a glance
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2007 177: 1490-1491.
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   Dispatch from the medical front: Goats and sewing machines
George Puthenpurayil Jacob
CMAJ 2007 177: 1491.
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Practice   

   Teaching Case Report: Pediatric hypocalcemia: making the diagnosis
Jonathan Dawrant MD BSc, Danièle Pacaud MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1494-1497.
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   Clinical Vistas: Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
Andreas Körber MD, Joachim Dissemond MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1498.
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Research   

   Appropriateness of current thresholds for obesity-related measures among Aboriginal people
Scott A. Lear PhD, Karin H. Humphries DSc, Jiri J. Frohlich MD, C. Laird Birmingham MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1499-1505.
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   Parental intention to have daughters receive the human papillomavirus vaccine
Gina S. Ogilvie MD MSc, Valencia P. Remple PhD, Fawziah Marra PharmD, Shelly A. McNeil MD, Monika Naus MD MHSc, Karen L. Pielak MSN, Thomas G. Ehlen MD, Simon R. Dobson MD, Deborah M. Money MD, David M. Patrick MD MHSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1506-1512.
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   Sex- and age-based differences in the delivery and outcomes of critical care
Robert A. Fowler MDCM MS, Natasha Sabur MD, Ping Li PhD, David N. Juurlink MD MSc, Ruxandra Pinto PhD, Michelle A. Hladunewich MD MS, Neill K.J. Adhikari MDCM MS, William J. Sibbald MD MPH, Claudio M. Martin MD MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1513-1519.
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Commentary   

   Research: Sex matters: gender disparities in quality and outcomes of care
Arlene S. Bierman MD MS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1520-1521.
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   Research: Equal for whom? Addressing disparities in the Canadian medical system must become a national priority
Nancy N. Baxter MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1522-1523.
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Letters   

   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
James A. Mansi PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1524.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
Eduardo L. Franco MPH DrPH, Alexandra de Pokomandy MD, Andrea R. Spence MSc, Ann N. Burchell MSc, Helen Trottier PhD, Marie-Hélène Mayrand MD MSc, Susie Lau MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1524-1525.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
Alex Ferenczy MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1525.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
James M. Brophy MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1525-1526.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
Alan K. Cassels MPA
CMAJ 2007 177: 1526.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
Jeff Nisker MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1526-1527.
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   Vaccination against human papillomavirus
Abby Lippman PhD, Madeline Boscoe RN DU, Carolyn Shimmin BJ
CMAJ 2007 177: 1527-1528.
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Stuart Holtby MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1528.
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Maria Kang MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1528.
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Jessica Hopkins MD BSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1528.
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Mark Beaudet BComm
CMAJ 2007 177: 1528.
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Ray Chepesiuk BSc Phm MIB
CMAJ 2007 177: 1529.
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Paul C. Hébert MD MHSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1529.
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Glenda Proctor MSc
CMAJ 2007 177: 1529.
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   Vitamin D deficiency among Italian children
Giuseppe Lippi MD, Martina Montagnana MD, Giovanni Targher MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1529-1530.
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   Vitamin D deficiency among Italian children
Leanne M. Ward MD, Isabelle Gaboury MSc, Moyez Ladhani MD, Stanley Zlotkin MD PhD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1530.
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   Correction
CMAJ 2007 177: 1530.
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Holiday Review   

   Research of a holiday kind
   A cellular-telephone model of assessing frontal lobe function in physicians
Kenneth Rockwood MD, Howard Chertkow MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1533-1535.
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   One giant leap for mankind? A cost-utility analysis of abolishing the law of gravity
Claude Cyr MD, Luc Lanthier MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1536-1538.
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   A clinical trial gone awry: the Chocolate Happiness Undergoing More Pleasantness (CHUMP) study
Kevin Chan MD MPH
CMAJ 2007 177: 1539-1541.
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   Unsubstantiated opinion
   Exercising privacy rights in medical science
Michael Hillmer MSc, Donald A. Redelmeier MD MS (HSR)
CMAJ 2007 177: 1542-1544.
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   The Goo Tolerance Index: a foolproof method for choosing a medical specialty
Julie Curwin MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1545-1546.
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   Auscultations
   Sound medicine: an introduction to cacophonology
Brian Gosset MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1547-1548.
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   A do-it-yourself stereophonic stethoscope
William Hogg MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1549.
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The Left Atrium   

   Holiday reading
   The purpose of illness
Ann Loewen MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1550.
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   The ABCs of women's anatomy
Lara Hazelton MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1551.
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   It's elementary medicine, my dear Watson
Marshall Godwin MD MSC
CMAJ 2007 177: 1551-1552.
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   Hope springs eternal in the human brain
Ian A. Gillespie MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1552-1553.
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   Body: know thyself
Isabelle Leblanc MD MSC
CMAJ 2007 177: 1553-1554.
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   Add a dash of mystery, and stir
Mary Jane Maffini BA MLS
CMAJ 2007 177: 1554.
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Deaths   

   Deaths
CMAJ 2007 177:1619.
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Salon   

   Pondering public health and purity
Erica Weir MD
CMAJ 2007 177: 1620.
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