Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, ...

Background: Primary care physicians, who manage the care of most children with asthma, often do not optimally assess disease control, prescribe asthma controller medications, or provide family asthma ...

A 47-year-old man with discomfort in the upper chest, difficulty swallowing food and drinks, and weight loss of 10 kg over 2 months underwent computed tomography (CT), which excluded malignancy but ...

Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...

Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common during pregnancy and are associated with adverse outcomes Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada. 1 It has been ...

Background: Pay inequality related to social identity has been observed among physicians, even after accounting for hours worked and specialty. Physician identity factors, such as gender and race, may ...

A 76-year-old man on dabigatran for rate-controlled atrial fibrillation had follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) ...

Young-onset type 2 diabetes is defined as type 2 diabetes diagnosed before age 40 years The annual incidence in Canada is 50–150 per 100 000 people aged 20–29 years and is rapidly rising. 1, 2 Type 2 ...

A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with limping. On the morning of the presentation, she had jumped off ...

Patients presenting with a positive pregnancy test and vaginal bleeding or pelvic pain routinely undergo transvaginal ultrasound as the standard diagnostic assessment. Pregnancy of unknown location is ...

Key points A 20-year-old pediatric cancer survivor presented to her local oncology centre in southwestern Ontario with right supraclavicular adenopathy. She had a history of stage IIA Hodgkin lymphoma ...

More than 5500 systematic reviews, at various stages of completion, are currently available in the Cochrane Library ( [www.cochrane.org] [1]) and 9000 systematic reviews are critically appraised for ...