CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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Biography Historical Article
Forensic dentistry joins DNA analysis as important tool for police work.
A Vancouver dentist who works as a teacher, researcher and administrator at the University of British Columbia has a unique extracurricular interest. Dr. David Sweet, one of four forensic odontologists in Canada, has put names to unidentified bodies and the remains of car-crash victims, helped convict child abusers and provided evidence in robbery cases.
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To examine the type and number of interactions of psychiatry residents, interns and clerks with sales representatives of pharmaceutical companies and the attitudes of physicians-in-training toward these interactions. ⋯ Interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and psychiatry residents, interns and clerks are common. The physicians-in-training perceive little educational value in these contacts and many, especially clerks, interns and junior residents, disavow the potential of these interactions to influence prescribing. Therefore, supervisors of postgraduate medical training programs may wish to provide instruction concerning potential conflicts of interest inherent in these types of interactions.
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Medicine has many unsung heroes, and among them are physicians who spend their careers providing medical care in remote areas. In this article, Ronald Porth remembers the life of his father, Dr. Frank Porth, who for more than 30 years provided medical care on native reserves and in rural parts of the Prairies.
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Biography Historical Article
Past presidents join forces to refurbish gravesite of Sir Charles Tupper, first CMA president.
The CMA's past presidents have donated a plaque and refurbished the headstone and plot at the Halifax gravesite of Sir Charles Tupper, the association's first president. "Sir Charles Tupper was a very significant personality in the conception of a national medical association and the past presidents wanted that fact to be remembered," Dr. Athol Roberts says of the endeavour.
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Biography Historical Article
A question of rhythm: recent advances in growth hormone research.
Research by Dr. Gloria Shaffer Tannenbaum at the McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute has led to the development of a new test to differentiate children who are deficient in growth hormone from those who are short but growing normally. ⋯ A subsequent challenge with GHRH is then used to identify children with a genuine deficiency. Tannenbaum's research also indicates that there are sexual differences in the pattern of growth hormone release and that growth hormone regulates its own secretion by means of a negative feedback system.