Clinical
Getting off the CHD treadmill: Poor sensitivity of standard CHD tests, particularly for low-risk patients, causes shift in US guidelines.

Hyperhidrosis treatment no sweat: Botox injected in the problem area can help control embarrassing odours.

Stop children, what's that sound?: Blast chinchillas with 108 decibels and see what you get. Is tinnitus the result of new synapse fibres?

Mama's boys and daddy's girls: X-chromosomes likely hold the clue to longevity. How long are your telomeres?

Vitamin D -- damned if you do or don't: Scientists struggle to balance the need for sunlight against the damage it does.

Fear of the boob tube: Women who've survived breast cancer get more stressed out by mammographies.

Words can be placebos too: Sugary words can work as well as sugar pills. Expectation of relief begins in the prefrontal cortex.

A bacterium from Hades: Researchers worked to unlock P. aeruginosa's secret -- and got a shock when they did.

H. pylori, world traveller: The usually innocuous infection packs its bags in the west, takes its killer punch to Asia.

Drop that high glycemic load: Candy and sweets that give a sudden jolt to blood sugar levels increase the chance of colorectal cancer.

Clozapine walks a straighter line: Levodopa-induced dyskinesias could be over for Parkinson's patients.

Physics gets physical: Fractal analysis is being used to monitor the progress of walking patterns in Parkinson patients.

Cold hand finds achy-breaky heart: Cold pressor test can detect cardiovascular problems in type II diabetics, even when they show no symptoms.

Mental Health Section
I'm depressed, I want the best: Depressives who want to get well demand specialist care. GPs left with the no-hopers.

Don't either of you eat your Wheaties: A large Danish study makes a celiac/ schizophrenia link.

Cyber solace: Internet depression groups are all the rage among sufferers. What about face time with a clinician? .

Panic in the ladies' room: Women suffer panic more than men. Some say the distress should be among MDs who don't recognize the symptoms.

Medicate the kid? The link between SSRIs and youth depression is all over the news. WHAT TO TELL YOUR PATIENTS takes a measured view.

Going once, going twice: Low free testosterone levels seem to accelerate AD, but no one's quite ready for another HRT debacle.

Don't try suicide, grandpa: Suicide rates among the elderly are alarmingly high, but their depression is often undiagnosed. Healthcare workers take action.

Government & Medicine
A nursing crusader: Doris Grinspun, executive director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Features
Hot-blooded hematologist: Dr Chaim Shustik knows it takes two to tango, and he knows exactly where all the best milongas are, the world over. .

Those little white lies: Doctors lie to patients. Patients lie to doctors. It's a time-honoured tradition and will be 'till hell freezes over.

Northern exposure: Doctors flee the Yukon faster than you can say 'there's gold in them thar hills.' Probably 'cause there isn't enough.

Dustups at Dal: Young medical researchers are often bullied by their superiors. At Dalhousie it's become endemic.

Read me a 'tory, doc: Get your wee patients off to a good start. Read to them and show their parents how it's done.

It hurts when I do this: Pain management in hospitals gets low marks from patients. Treating the whole patient.

Winning the antibiotic wars: Too few and infections skyrocket, too many and resistance grows. Lately Canada gets it right.

Are you a walk-in? A growing number of clinics have hours open only to patients on the roster. Aliens keep out.

Shop 'till you drop: In Newfoundland, the high cost of healthy food means low income families choose between hunger and eviction.

A warm place to sit: Public loos are a dying breed, but campaigners aren't giving up without a fight. Don't stand for the anthem.

Mercury rising?: A controversial US study claims to make the thimerosol/ autism link. Canadian pediatricians aren't so sure.

I'm not going to take it anymore: Stress stalks many medical lives. Charting the limits of "physician heal thyself. "

They CAM, they conquered: Complementary therapies are gaining ground among your colleagues. They share their stress-busting secrets.

Cancer lancers in the West: New BC research uses an enzyme to cut off tumour blood supply and slow tumour growth.

OvaCheck check: The controversial test for ovarian cancer described in The Lancet two years ago remains unreplicated.

(Safe) sex sells: Two racy tv and print AIDS awareness campaigns bears fruit in Quebec. Can Canada afford to be coy when it comes to STDs?

My senses are tingling: A UBC researcher thinks he's found the key to the sixth sense, called "mindsight." It's all in your gut -- feeling that is.

Departments
Editorial: Replacing the irreplaceable: Is the family physician about to go the way of all flesh? Our guest editorialist explores the issues.

Pursuits: It's in the bag: Flashy new laptop? That industrial laptop bag is just so 1998. It's time to go upmarket -- but only if the bag fits.

Classics:
Film:The Trial: Orson Welles delves into Kafka's mad mad world of totalitarianism.
Book: Baudolino: A typically twisted tale of the fourth Crusade from Umberto Eco.
Music: Purple Rain: "Let's go crazy" with His Purple Highness, Prince.