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Preface

Historical Review

166

Venous Thrombosis: On the History of Virchow's Triad

Brendan Craig Dickson

Infectious Disease

172

Blastomycosis

Shaun K. Morris and Claire K. Nguyen

Psychiatry

176

Managing Schizophrenia in the African-American Population

Amy Cheng and Mara Goldstein

News and Views

180

Law and Ethics in Medicine - Genetic Risk to Biological Third Parties: Disclosure and Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

Isabella Massimi

185

To Eat or Not to Eat: Why Dining on Drug Company Lunches may be Unhealthy for Physicians and Their Patients

Sacha Agrawal

187

Back to Basics - The Bird Flu In: A Review of the Past, Present and Future of Avian Influenza

Susanna Fung and Ben Schroeder

192

Medical Murmurs - Antiviral Agents for an Influenza Pandemic

Daniel Saul

194

Medical Murmurs - Hepatitis A Vaccine: Should We Use it in Practice?

Ramona Mahtani and Hartley A. Garfield

196

In a Scandal's Wake: An Interview with Dr. Nancy Olivieri

Robert B. Renwick

200

The Thirteenth International Health Medical Education Consortium Conference Achieving Sustainable Health Development: Challenges and Innovations in Nutrition and Maternal and Child Health

Nisha Thampi

Rehabilitation Medicine

202

Positional Plagiocephaly among Infants: Identification, Management and Prevention

Rita Damignani, Karen Klar and Christopher Forrest

Medical Education

205

Interprofessional Education and the Development of Interprofessionalism in Medicine

Louie Chan

Current Medical Perspectives

208

David E.C. Cole

Lorenne Doucet and Navindra Persaud

Morning Report

210

The Weightlifters' Tragic Demise

Avi Orner, Liane Porepa, Dena Hammoudi and Parisa Rahimi

Clinicopathological Correlation

216

An Uncommon "Red Eye"

P. Kazemian and Dr. Y. Buys

222

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome in Small-Cell Carinoma of the Lung: Case Report and Literature Review

John D. D. Neary and Joe Lai

Quick Diagnosis

230

Anne-Marie Beaudet, Timothy Bell, Nicole Chau, Alina Gerrie, Roberta Hood and Kevin Lumb

Technology Review

239

IVC Filters: An Introduction to a Simple Concept Turned Clinical

Mark Baerlocher and Jason Noble

243

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis

Taher Chugh

246

The Ins and Outs of Interventional Radiology

Mark Baerlocher and Perry Choi

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

249

Managing Menopause: Seeking out Alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy

Karen Hershenfield, Michelle Levy and Michele Zysman

Philosophy and Medicine

251

Patient Autonomy - Swinging the Pendulum Back

Susan Lee and Ari Greenwald

Book Reviews

254

Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment, 2004

Erika Henkelman

256

Fundamental Clinical Situations: A Practical OSCE Study Guide, Fourth Edition

Jason Joannou

257

Cecil Textbook of Medicine and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine: A Comparative Review

John D.D. Neary

259

Internal Medicine Clerkship Guide

Robert Simpson

260

Clinical Radiology Made Ridiculously Simple: (Made Ridiculously Simple Series)

Vikram Venkatesh

Front cover illustration by Julie Saunders
Department of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto