PATIENTS & PRACTICE
Lemon squeeze: Bad implanted defibrillators best left alone.

Team players: New DVT pathway speeds up treatment.

Aliens from this planet: Shift in autism research views autistics as separate but equal.

Don't bust a gut: Probiotics protect belly from chronic stress.

Take a load off: Slow and steady BP testing yields better diagnoses.

No splitting hairs: Know WHAT TO TELL YOUR PATIENTS about alopecia.

Practice Management
Office panacea: All the gadgets that are fit to print.

POLICY & POLITICS
Revalidation goes national: FMRAC has a plan to keep you up-to-date.

Klein's waterloo: Ralph Klein's Third Way health reforms are crushed by his Tory cousins in Ottawa.

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE
Brain teaser: Take a shot at a tumour

Sugar sugar: Continuous glucose monitors herald a new era in diabetes care.

PHYSICIAN LIFE
Shogun life: Cancer researcher finds strength in samurai armour.

Your gurney or mine? On-call bed-hopping in your local hospital.

A long coat to fill: Do med students ever feel ready for their MD?

Personal Finance
Avoid the shaft: Find out how to reap rewards from mining stocks.

Departments
Editorial: Papa Harper puts the freeze on provinces' healthcare allowances
Editorial: cartoon
Editorial: Letters
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Across Canada: News highlights from coast to coast to coast.
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