Editor's Letter
Researchers hope eventually to be able to prevent almost 100% of cancers by controlling diet, lifestyle and environmental triggers, or by correcting flawed genes and blocking their protein products with drugs
From the CMA
Last spring, this comprehensive poll of Canadian doctors provided a revealing snapshot of who they are, what they do and how they see the joys and challenges of practising medicine today
Short Takes
A safer home front, healthy spears, exercising the pelvic floor, fertility myths, eating for you eyes, generic versus brand name drugs
Blueprints for Health
Rough stuff
Why you need more digestibles on your plate
Men's Health
Hernias
Repairing these protrusions is a common surgical procedure
Intelligent Eating
A light supper to segue into spring.
Fungi, fish and a fab fruit salad are low in calories but not in class
Child + Teen Health
Let sleeping teens lie
Their brains are working really hard
From Recent Issues of CMAJ
Health news in the Canadian Medical Association Journal:
Stat Bites
Quantifying aging
Despite the shortcomings of our health-care system, cold weather and myriad other things
Canadians complain about, we are the 11th longest-living people in the world, according to
United Nations figures. The mighty U.S. ranks 38th. With our ever-longer lifespans and
perennially low birth rates, Canada (along with the rest of the developed world) is headed
for a major demographic shift |
Cervical Cancer: An Ounce of Prevention
New vaccines may have this once-lethal malignancy on the run
Yoga Therapy
From distress to de-stress with an ancient art
Genetics 101
Science offers hope to those at risk for gene-based diseases, but it also raises ethical dilemmas
Coping with Chronic Pain
Persistent pain is now being approached as a long-term illness such as diabetes — one that's managed rather than cured
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