Research

Estimated effects of adding universal public coverage of an essential medicines list to existing public drug plans in Canada
Steven G. Morgan, Winny Li, Brandon Yau, and Nav Persaud
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E295-E302
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Association between day of the week of elective surgery and postoperative mortality
Luc Dubois, Kelly Vogt, Chris Vinden, Jennifer Winick-Ng, J. Andrew McClure, Pavel S. Roshanov, Chaim M. Bell, and Amit X. Garg , for the Surgical Investigators Group at ICES Western
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E303-E309
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Commentary

A fresh approach to tobacco control: raising the minimum legal age for access
John Oyston
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E293-E294
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Guidelines

Recommendations on behavioural interventions for the prevention and treatment of cigarette smoking among school-aged children and youth
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E310-E316
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Practice

Decisions: A 35-year-old woman with low mood and concerns about her alcohol use
Andriy V. Samokhvalov and Bernard Le Foll
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E317-E318
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Five Things to Know About ...: Antenatal corticosteroids
Julia Kfouri and Rohan D'Souza
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E319
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Clinical Images: Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Steven J. Montague and A. Ross Morton
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E320
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Humanities

Medicine and Society: War! What is it good for? Mustard gas medicine
Susan L. Smith
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E321-E322
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News

Experts blame feds for pharma corruption
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E327-E328
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Plan needed to capitalize on robots, AI in health care
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E329-E330
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E-cigs have lower levels of harmful toxins
Roger Collier
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E331
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Letters

Neurologic thoracic outlet syndrome
Rajive Jassal
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E323
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Ideology versus reality
Michael A. Stanger
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E324
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Association between statin use and ischemic stroke or major hemorrhage in patients taking dabigatran for atrial fibrillation
Sebastian Haertter, Fenglei Huang, and Lionel Riou Franca
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E325
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Response to "Association between statin use and ischemic stroke or major hemorrhage in patients taking dabigatran for atrial fibrillation"
Tony Antoniou, Muhammad Mamdani, and David Juurlink
CMAJ February 27, 2017 189:E326
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