PATIENTS & PRACTICE
Here at home: Community-acquired MRSA is on the rise. The wrong Tx could kill your patients.

Cycling season: Springtime mania in bipolar patients.

Sad 'change': Two studies find depression higher in menopausal women.

Eating for two: Are mums-to-be putting on too much or not enough?

STI immigrant: Rare chlamydia strain moves to Canada.

Without breaking a sweat: What to Tell Your Patients about HH.

Stroke strikes out: Why so many Canadians are missing out on the best stroke care.

A leg up: The latest in leg-lengthening techniques.

New Parkinson's guidelines stress quality of life: Widely used treatment evidence gets a good once-over

Clear!: Public access defibs are catching on big. But do they get the job done?

Cut it out: Know when it¹s time to put a halt on prescriptions.

Want a new drug?: Trying out new meds on patients can have it's benefits and downfalls.

Refreshing refugees: University of Calgary training program gets Sudanese docs ready to go home.

Practice Management
Feeling shortchanged?: Re-jig your practice to maximize your time and money.

POLICY & POLITICS
BC's turn: The Pacific province is the latest to announce plans for more private healthcare.

Unravelling the Act: What is the law that governs healthcare in this country really all about.

Phoenix from ashes?: CMAJ fracas could yield a new Canadian med journal.

NB hospital racket: A blockbuster healthcare fraud trial comes to an end. A judge is convicted.

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE
Surprise supplier: UBC team unearths unexpected source of 'good' cholesterol.

Mini me: What can nanotechnology do for you?

Brainy solution: High hopes for an inexpensive, portable brain trauma scanner.

Lab, born and raised: The making of the world¹s first lab-grown bladders.

PHYSICIAN LIFE
Writing as bloodletting: Dr Vincent Lam's med school-themed fiction.

Dilettante doc: Med student discovers residency means the end of medical dabbling.

Personal Finance
Confounding but profitable: Compound interest rates let savings balloon.

Departments
Editorial: In with the new, but keep the old too
Editorial: cartoon
Editorial: Letters
News in brief:
Across Canada: News highlights from coast to coast to coast.
Medical History in Brief: Take a walk down medicine's oft-strange memory lane.
Sudoku puzzle: Test your 'rithmetic skills.