Alberta’s Ministry of Health recently announced plans to enable residents to privately purchase diagnostic testing services, including laboratory and imaging tests, without a referral from a health ...
Key points A 69-year-old man presented to the emergency department with several months of progressive weakness, exertional dyspnea, and recurrent sinopulmonary infections. Over the preceding 6 months, ...
Key points An estimated 8.7 million premature deaths occur globally each year from air pollution attributable to fossil fuel combustion alone.[1][1] Climate change, which is primarily caused by the ...
Key points Ontario’s Ministry of Health (MOH) recently introduced a policy mandating that, starting with the 2026 Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) cycle, only Canadian citizens or permanent ...
An 81-year-old man presented to our emergency department with a 3-day history of fever and cough and was given a diagnosis of pneumonia. He reported a 9-kg weight loss over 2 years. He also reported ...
A 74-year-old man with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes presented to our nephrology clinic for follow-up of diabetic kidney disease with a serum creatinine of 180 (reference range 59 ...
Symptomatic CPPD disease (formerly known as “pseudogout”) is more common in older than younger adults and typically affects joints with previous damage. Chondrocalcinosis visible on radiographs ...
Incidence of psychotic disorders by birth cohort: a population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada
Background: Previous reports have suggested that the incidence of psychotic disorders has either been stable or decreasing ...
A 26-year-old woman presented to a dermatologist’s office for psoriasis, reporting discomfort due to itching and scaling. During the consultation, we incidentally noticed a smooth, yellow–white, ...
Background: Children with major trauma have better outcomes when treated in pediatric trauma centres, but population-based data on access to these centres in Canada are lacking. We aimed to estimate ...
A recent meta-analysis showed that, compared with the left-lateral going-to-sleep position, the supine going-to-sleep position was associated with stillbirth (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2.63, 95% ...
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