PATIENTS & PRACTICE
When less is more: The shifting sands of breast cancer screening.

Listen to that killer beat!: iPod training helps docs ID heart murmurs.

Single smokes: 300% rise in Canadian cigarillo consumption sparks talk of a QC ban.

A stroke of bad luck: Diabetics' resistance complicates aspirin's CVD protection.

Freedom on the web: Fired CMAJ editors move on to a new project.

Bowel drug pulled: What To Tell Your Patients about the withdrawal of tegaserod.

Predicting stillbirth: New technique finds dangerous placental problems.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
"HOW TO" SECTION
Your Practice
An easy guide to EMR: Going digital with your patients' records.

Micropractice makes perfect: US docs willing to take pay cut to go solo.

The spotless practice: A good cleaning service is hard to find... and keep.

Your Staff
Keep on trainin': Professional education can boost your staff's morale.

Do they check out?: Call applicants' references... or face the consequences.

Your Patients
Waiting games: Your office is boring, but it doesn't have to be.

POLICY & POLITICS
Wait times turn off: Public treats PM's queue-taming plan like a bad pick-up line.

Local control: Ontario moves power to the regions.

Post-traumatic mess: US military docs struggle with rise in Iraq brain injuries.

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE
Making blood universal: Canada wants in on new type-O conversion tool.

Burning away asthma: Could this novel treatment really be the solution

Gadget guide: Rubber robots, sippy cups and more.

PHYSICIAN LIFE
Doctor Dreamboat: The Bachelor lands a bonafide MD.

Personal Finance
Retire on your own terms: Savings are important but so is a healthy, happy lifestyle.

Departments
Editorial: Ontario's new anesthesia teams: collaboration vs competition
Editorial: Cartoon
Editorial: Letters
News in brief:
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