Preface and Table Of Contents
News and Views
8
Perspective on Circumcision and HIV Transmission
Adam Weathermon
9
Sharing Solutions: A Successful Strategy for Tuberculosis
that may be Used to Treat HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Amitha Kalaichandran
13
Lactic Acid: Fuel or Foe?
Melissa de Souza
15
Early Inhaled Corticosteroid Use in Children at Risk of Asthma
Husam Abdel-Qadir
18
Changing the Face of the Health Care System: Local Health
Integration Networks (LHINs)
Theresa J.C. Pazionis
Quick Diagnosis
20
Case 1
Ali Zaidi and Dr. Rajkumar Vajpeyi
21
Case 2
Tom Trajkovski and Dr. Peter Ferguson
Clinicopathological Correlation
26
New Frontiers in Pediatric Medulloblastoma
Roberto Jose Diaz and Dr. Eric Bouffet
Morning Report
32
Something’s Happening...I’m Not Who I Used to Be
Shannon Daniel and Dr. Mike Humphreys
35
The Great Pretender
Aidan Cunniffe
International Health
38
The Face of AIDS
Anna MacDonald
39
Student Reflections on the XVI International AIDS Conference 2006, Toronto, Canada
Susan Lee, Brodie Ramin and Melissa Vyvey
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
42
Acupuncture: A Synopsis and Highlights of Recent Evidence
of Efficacy in the Literature
Peter Tanuseputro, Gina Yip and Evan Kwong
Medical Education
45
Establishment of the University of Toronto at Mississauga
(UTM) Academy: Perspectives from the Faculty of Medicine
and the Medical Society
Sagar B. Dugani and Julia Kfouri
Current Medical Perspectives
48
Dr. Albert J. Schumacher: Raising Awareness, Showing
Direction, and Creating Results in the Medical Profession
Katie Yu and Kit Man Wong
Technology Review
51
The Microvascular Anastomotic Device and Its Role in Free
Tissue Transfer
Goran Jeremic, Dr. Mark Shrime, Dr. Jonathan C. Irish, Dr. Ralph W. Gilbert and Dr. David Goldstein
Philosophy and Medicine
55
My Heart, Myself: Using a Phenomenological Model to
Understand the Body
Lauren Bialystok
Book Reviews
59
Medical Marvels: The 100 Greatest Advances in Medicine
Andrew J. Perrin
Research
60
“Ethics teaching is as important as my clinical education”:
A survey of participants in residency education at a single
university
Alex V. Levin, Scott Berry, Charles D. Kassardjian, Frazer Howard and Martin McKneally
64
Student Teachers: Medical Students Developing Content for
their own Website-Supported, Self-Assessment Question
Database
Gaurav Gupta, Ju Ho Park, Lawrence Spero, Stephen Keleher and Joyce Nyhof-Young