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(McGill University Health Centre) Elderly patients who have visited an emergency department are three times more likely to develop respiratory or gastrointestinal infections in the week following their return to a long-term care facility, such as a Centre d'Hébergement de Soins de Longue Durée.

These are the findings of a new Canadian study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Attitudes toward end-of-life care for cancer patients vary, but most patients, family members, oncologists and members of the public are receptive to withdrawing futile life-sustaining treatments in people who are dying, found a Korean study in CMAJ.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) An enzyme associated with extensive antibiotic resistance called New Delhi metallo-ß-lactamase-1 (NDM-1), endemic in India and Pakistan and spreading worldwide, has been found in two people in the Toronto area, one of whom acquired it in Canada, states a case report in CMAJ.

The report outlines challenges and approaches to managing and identifying this pathogen, which is highly resistant to treatment.

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(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Canada needs a new vision for health at the federal level, writes Dr. Paul Hebert, editor-in-chief, CMAJ, and Matthew Stanbrook, deputy editor, in an editorial published today.

(University of Calgary) New and updated guidelines on recommended vitamin D intake have been published this week in the online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Early action, especially rapid rollout of vaccines, is extremely effective in reducing the attack rate of the H1N1 influenza virus, according to a simulation model of a pandemic outbreak reported in a new study in CMAJ.

According to an article in Tuesday's Canadian Medical Association Journal, our neighbors to the north may soon be reversing a policy which initially sounded like an entirely positive step: Back in 2005 Health Canada had proposed broadening the field of foods that might be fortified with nutrients such as