PATIENTS & PRACTICE
Troubled youths: Docs miss 74% of kids’ and teens’ hypertension.

Effort redoubled: Planned relaparotomy for severe peritonitis is a waste of time, money.

Stress case: Medical errors leave MDs feeling anxious and isolated.

Twilight ardour: New survey shows it’s still on seniors’ minds.

Poison playthings: Lead paint recalls breed parent patient.

Re-think tank: Oxygen’s only good for exercise hypoxemia in many COPD patients.

The anti-antibiotics: Probiotics reduce infant diarrhea duration.

Caribou in space: Canada’s astronaut MD blasts off with space cookies and caribou jerky.

Dance revolution: One Saint John doc looks to video games to curb obesity.

ADHD drugs: What role do teachers play in increasingly-common child drug use?

Sibling rivalry: Bacterial STI divides Montreal MD brothers.

Practice Management
Closing up shop: Moving or retiring? Plan wisely.

POLICY & POLITICS
Barbed and wiry: Funnyman Rick Mercer gives us the lowdown on his new malaria charity with his pal Belinda Stronach.

Science vs ideology: Physicians question federal anti-drug policies.

Ethical conundrum: BC case raises spectre of sex-selective abortion.

ADVANCES IN MEDICINE
CABG prep: Cutting off an arm’s blood flow protects the heart.

Small toys, big difference: New gadgets help patients predict asthma attack, improve hearing.

PHYSICIAN LIFE
Sporting cause: Speed skating doc leaves medicine to run sports charity.

Keep the peace: Our diarist learns playing peacemaker between staff docs, nurses and patients comes with the territory.

Personal Finance
Get your share: Shore up your portfolio with some dividend ballast.

Departments
Editorial: Harper’s new Anti-Drug Strategy is not anti-HIV..
Editorial: Letters
Editorial: Cartoon
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