Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1343
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Editorial

Cruel and usual punishment: solitary confinement in Canadian prisons
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1345
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Commentary

Adding the head-tilt–chin-lift technique to adult compression-only CPR by untrained bystanders
Anthony M.-H. Ho, Song Wan, and David C. Chung
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1347-1348
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News

Continued high use of PPIs despite C. difficile risk
Carolyn Brown
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1350
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Canada tackles antimicrobial resistance
Terry Murray
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1351
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Addressing bias in industry-funded CME
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1352
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Medical technology: the good and the bad
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1353
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Lyme law uses “junk science” says expert
Carolyn Brown
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1354
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Medical education needs digital boost
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E658
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US data on industry payments to doctors
Paul Webster
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E659-E660
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10 health stories that mattered: Oct.18–24
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E661
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All provinces can now sue big tobacco
Donalee Moulton
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E662
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Huge reorg of Nova Scotia’s health system
Donalee Moulton
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E663
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10 health stories that mattered this week: Oct. 27–31
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E664
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Suicide rate lower among boys in Iqaluit
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E665-E666
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Gairdner presents cutting-edge cancer research
Miriam Shuchman
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E667-E668
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Call for Ebola medics falls on deaf ears: MSF
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E669
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CME accreditation: separating education from promotion
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E670
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10 health stories that mattered: Nov. 1–7
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E671
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Research

Oral administration of morphine versus ibuprofen to manage postfracture pain in children: a randomized trial
Naveen Poonai, Gina Bhullar, Kangrui Lin, Adam Papini, David Mainprize, Jocelyn Howard, John Teefy, Michelle Bale, Cindy Langford, Rodrick Lim, Larry Stitt, Michael J. Rieder, and Samina Ali
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1358-1363
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Time trends in symptoms of mental illness in children and adolescents in Canada
Seanna E. McMartin, Mila Kingsbury, Jennifer Dykxhoorn, and Ian Colman
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E672-E678
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What really matters in end-of-life discussions? Perspectives of patients in hospital with serious illness and their families
John J. You, Peter Dodek, Francois Lamontagne, James Downar, Tasnim Sinuff, Xuran Jiang, Andrew G. Day, and Daren K. Heyland, for the ACCEPT Study Team and the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network (CARENET)
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E679-E687
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Research in CMAJ Open

Highlights: Highlights
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1368
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Review

Deprescribing for older patients
Christopher Frank and Erica Weir
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1369-1376
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Assessment and management of resistant hypertension
Raj S. Padwal, Simon Rabkin, and Nadia Khan
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E689-E697
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Analysis

Regulatory decisions pertaining to aprotinin may be putting patients at risk
Paul C. Hébert, Dean A. Fergusson, Brian Hutton, C. David Mazer, Stephen Fremes, Morris Blajchman, Charles MacAdams, George Wells, Jim Robblee, Jean Bussières, and Kevin Teoh, for the BART Investigators
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1379-1386
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Practice

Decisions: Imaging in a 35-year-old woman with progressive headache
Santanu Chakraborty and William D. Miller
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1391-1393
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Five things to know about …: Screening with the Pap test
David Ponka and James Dickinson
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1394
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Clinical images: Brown-Séquard syndrome from herniation of a thoracic disc
Christopher D. Witiw and Mohammed F. Shamji
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1395
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Clinical Images: Lichen nitidus
Jackson Chu and Joseph M. Lam
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E688
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Letters

Atypical diabetes: clarifying the muddy waters
Elizabeth Sellers, Seth Marks, Celia Rodd, Randy Wicklow, and Heather Dean
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1397
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Atypical diabetes: clarifying the muddy waters
Devin Steenkamp, Sara Alexanian, and Elliot Sternthal
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1397-1398
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Beyond resuscitate and do-not-resuscitate
Jessica Simon, Eric Wasylenko, and Doris Barwich
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1398
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Beyond resuscitate and do-not-resuscitate
Philip C. Hébert and Debbie Selby
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1398
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About bloody time
Edward S. Weiss
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1398
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Holiday Reading

Department of advice: Limitations / An experiment in open peer review
Roger Collier
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1400-1401
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Unsubstantiated theory: Evidence-based dating: the Johnson–Purdy nomogram
Eve Purdy and Heather Johnson
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1402-1403
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Unsubstantiated theory: Diving into the ice bucket challenge
Anil Adisesh, Sarah Melville, Thomas Pulinilkunnil, Sohrab Lutchmedial, and Keith R. Brunt
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1404-1405
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In other words: TYPE-Os
Dominick Amato
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1406
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Reflections: A Christmas–Hanukkah gift
Ronald Ruskin
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:E698
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Digestif

Digestif
CMAJ December 9, 2014 186:1424
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