Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:887
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Editorial

Good health requires a healthy mouth: improving the oral health of Canada’s seniors
Diane Kelsall and John O’Keefe
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:893
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Commentary

New medical marijuana regulations: the coming storm
Meldon Kahan and Anita Srivastava
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:895-896
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Medicinal cannabis: Time to lighten up?
David N. Juurlink
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:897-898
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News

Advice varies for suspected Lyme disease
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:899-900
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Portal simplifies medical registration
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:900
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Medicare on trial
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:901
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New national medical electives portal
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:902
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When postpublication peer review stings
Roger Collier
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:904
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Nurse supply grows despite shortage fears
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E436
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10 health stories that mattered: July 7–11
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E437
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Quebec hospitals allow inpatient use of weed
Owen Dyer
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E438
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Ethicists resign to protest CIHR stance
Tim Lougheed
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E439
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Prescribing marijuana? You have more than 200 options
Roger Collier
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E440
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10 stories that mattered: July 12–18
Roger Collier
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E441
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BMA votes to end investment in fossil fuels
Brian Owens
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E442
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Second BC drug safety scientist reinstated
Paul Christopher Webster
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E443
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Oil sands pollutants in traditional foods
Jocelyn Edwards
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E444
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10 health stories that mattered: July 21–25
Roger Collier
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E445
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Payment for plasma raises ethical issues
Wendy Glauser
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E446
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Laos struggles to lower maternal mortality
Steve Finch
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E447-E448
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Lifestyle factors as predictors of nonadherence to statin therapy among patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities
Heli Halava, Maarit Jaana Korhonen, Risto Huupponen, Soko Setoguchi, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, and Jussi Vahtera
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E449-E456
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Research

Predictors of early and late stroke following cardiac surgery
Richard Whitlock, Jeff S. Healey, Stuart J. Connolly, Julie Wang, Matthew R. Danter, Jack V. Tu, Richard Novick, Stephen Fremes, Kevin Teoh, Vikas Khera, and Salim Yusuf
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:905-911
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Lifestyle factors as predictors of nonadherence to statin therapy among patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities
Heli Halava, Maarit Jaana Korhonen, Risto Huupponen, Soko Setoguchi, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, and Jussi Vahtera
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E449-E456
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Body size and physical activity in relation to incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Gundula Behrens, Charles E. Matthews, Steven C. Moore, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Michael F. Leitzmann
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E457-E469
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Research in CMAJ Open

Highlights
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:916
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Analysis

The increasing inefficiency of private health insurance in Canada
Michael R. Law, Jillian Kratzer, and Irfan A. Dhalla
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:E470-E474
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Guidelines

Management of Bell palsy: clinical practice guideline
John R. de Almeida, Gordon H. Guyatt, Sachin Sud, Joanne Dorion, Michael D. Hill, Michael R. Kolber, Jane Lea, Sylvia Loong Reg, Balvinder K. Somogyi, Brian D. Westerberg, Chris White, Joseph M. Chen, and Bell Palsy Working Group, Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:917-922
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Practice

Decisions: A 52-year-old woman with a positive tuberculin skin test
Vanessa J. Redditt and Paul E. Bunce
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:927-928
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What is Your Call?: Progressive thrombocytopenia after cardiac surgery in a 67-year-old man
Ilana Kopolovic and Theodore E. Warkentin
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:929-933
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Five Things to Know About ...: Noninvasive prenatal testing from cell-free DNA
Christine M. Armour and Sarah M. Nikkel
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:934
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Clinical Images: Pyoderma gangrenosum triggered by red tattoo dye
Ivan V. Litvinov and Denis Sasseville
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:935
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Letters

A century of chemical warfare: time to stop
Arik Eisenkraft, S. David Gertz, and Yitshak Kreiss
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:936
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A little cheese, a big cheese and the novel anticoagulants
Ian. L. Mitchell
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:936
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A little cheese, a big cheese and the novel anticoagulants
Yas Moayedi, Husam Abdel-Qadir, and Paul Dorian
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:936-937
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How can we best address the tuberculosis epidemic?
Jan Hajek
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:937
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Vaporizer legalization
Ian V. Mitchell
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:937
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Humanities

Essay: Drama in medicine
Paul Gessell
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:938-939
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Poetry: Shifting intimacies
Marie O’Connor
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:939
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Salon

Time to divest from the fossil-fuel industry
Ilona Hale, David Hale, Courtney Howard, and Warren Bell
CMAJ September 2, 2014 186:960
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