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Editor's note
The high costs of obesity discrimination

Short takes
Alternative asthma therapies for kids, noninvasive biopsies, NSAIDs and infertility, better eyes and ears for the elderly, help your hardworking wrists

Stat bites
How does our medicare compare?

Real health
Osteoporosis — not just an old person’s disease

Patient relations
The medical receptionist

Men’s health
Guard the gonads!

Blueprints for health
The faux hunger within

Your time
Off the top of your head

Oral health
Fear of flossing

The diet detective
Front-of-package health claims

Conference scan
Reports from major heart meetings

Intelligent eating
Grilled lamb chops with puréed peas and mint

From recent issues of CMAJ
Health news in the Canadian Medical Association Journal:

• Advocating for conservative gynecological surgery (June 1911)
• Spanish flu epidemic hits canada (November–December 1918)
• New treatment for diabetes mellitus (November 1922)
• Cigarettes and the risk of lung cancer (May 1960)
• Sunlight a risk for skin cancer (August 1938)
• Physician vigilance needed to deal with aids (June 1983)

The last word
Patients shape the goals of medical research

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A treatment for just about everything
How the age-old placebo effect may aid modern medicine

Smoking away the pain
The pros and cons of medicinal marijuana

Why am I so tired?
Common causes of fatigue and the best counter-strategies

Health anxiety
Do you suffer from this fearful obsession?

Cycle-ogical thriller
The cheap and simple high of pedal pushing into the warm spring wind