Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:151
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Editorial

Addiction is a disease: We must change our attitudes toward addicts
Matthew B. Stanbrook
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:155
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Revascularization options: One size does not fit all
David R. Holmes, Jr. and Charanjit S. Rihal
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E104-E105
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Guidelines are too important to be left to clinical experts
Mattias Johansson and Pär Stattin
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:159-160
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News

Briefly
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E106-E108
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For the record
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E109-E112
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Physicians must be brought up to speed on concussion risks
Jordan Fallis
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E113-E114
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Public health fallout from Japanese quake
Lauren Vogel and Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E115-E116
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Reducing the “pill burden”
Roger Collier
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E117-E118
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Prices gone wild: Grey market ‘scalpers’ scoring windfall in American drug market
Cal Woodward
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E119-E120
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Stem cell tourism poses risks
Carolyn Brown
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E121-E122
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Crowdfunding for medical expenses
Julia Sisler
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E123-E124
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Universal health coverage still rare in Africa
Bernard Appiah
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E125-E126
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Pfizer advertises smoking cessation drug despite health warnings
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E127-E128
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Webster Tracking opioid use vital to avoiding scourge
Paul Christopher
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E129-E130
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Teaming up to make meaningful use of electronic health records
Kayla Redstone
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E131-E132
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Promise of nano revolution hasn’t materialized
Sabrina Doyle
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E133-E134
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Private rooms: Evidence-based design in hospitals
Nathan Stall
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:162-163
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Swallowing the pharmaceutical waters
Roger Collier
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:163-164
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Research on drug use goes down the toilet
Roger Collier
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:165-166
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Research

Impact of remuneration and organizational factors on completing preventive manoeuvres in primary care practices
Simone Dahrouge, William E. Hogg, Grant Russell, Meltem Tuna, Robert Geneau, Laura K. Muldoon, Elizabeth Kristjansson, and John Fletcher
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E135-E143
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Enrolment in primary care networks: impact on outcomes and processes of care for patients with diabetes
Braden J. Manns, Marcello Tonelli, Jianguo Zhang, David J.T. Campbell, Peter Sargious, Bharati Ayyalasomayajula, Fiona Clement, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Andreas Laupacis, Richard Lewanczuk, Kerry McBrien, and Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E144-E152
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The basis for monitoring strategies in clinical guidelines: a case study of prostate-specific antigen for monitoring in prostate cancer
Jacqueline Dinnes, Jenny Hewison, Douglas G. Altman, and Jonathan J. Deeks
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:169-177
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Determinants of variations in coronary revascularization practices
Jack V. Tu, Dennis T. Ko, Helen Guo, Janice A. Richards, Nancy Walton, Madhu K. Natarajan, Harindra C. Wijeysundera, Derek So, David A. Latter, Christopher M. Feindel, Kori Kingsbury, and Eric A. Cohen , for the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario’s Variations in Revascularization Practice in Ontario Working Group
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:179-186
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Special Report

Essay for the 2011 CIHR/CMAJ award: glucagon-like peptides for metabolic and gastrointestinal disorders
Daniel J. Drucker
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E153-E154
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Essay for the 2011 CIHR/CMAJ award: Motherisk — caring for mothers, protecting the unborn
Gideon Koren, Irena Nulman, Katarina Aleksa, Joey Gareri, Adrienne Einarson, and Shinya Ito , for the Motherisk Program
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E155-E157
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Celebrating top achievements in health research 2011
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:189-191
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Analysis

Unlocking Health Canada’s cache of trade secrets: mandatory disclosure of clinical trial results
Matthew Herder
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:194-199
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Practice

Clinical Images: Bronchoscopic diagnosis of pulmonary hydatid cyst
Karan Madan and Navneet Singh
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E158
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Clinical Images: Pancreatic panniculitis
Sophia Colantonio and Jennifer Beecker
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E159
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Cases: Treatment-refractory hypothyroidism
Abdulaziz Ramadhan and Michael Tamilia
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:205-209
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Clinical Images: A pituitary mass as consequence of a decimal error in levothyroxine dose
Kristin Clemens and Stan Van Uum
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:210
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Clinical shorts
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:211
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Resources: Health and drug alerts
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:212
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Letters

Smoking v. nicotine
Stuart H. Kreisman
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:214
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Care for smokers
John Oyston
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:214
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Sudden cardiac arrest
Sumeet S. Chugh and Kyndaron Reinier
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:214
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Home-based care
Dawn E. Davies
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:214-215
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Form and function
Dennis C. Harrison
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:215
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Humanities

Books: Sorrow never leaves us where it found us
Vincent Hanlon
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E160
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Poetry: Table of contents
Adam Possner and Assistant Professor
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E161
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Poetry: The featherweight fighter
Ryan Childers
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:E162
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Books: A bedtime story about medicine’s coming of age
Alan Blum
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:216-217
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Encounters: Thrown into the rose
Naila Ramji
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:217
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Salon

Ending Canada’s HIV trials
M-J Milloy, Thomas Kerr, and Julio Montaner
CMAJ February 7, 2012 184:264
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