BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease Study represents a large and systematic effort to describe the burden of diseases and injuries over the past 3 decades. We aimed to summarize the Canadian data ...

A 43-year-old man presents requesting screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). His medical history is remarkable for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and he is currently receiving no ...

Accessibility adaptations like online booking and virtual consultations can reduce care avoidance observed in autistic people. Access to accurate diagnoses and better health outcomes can be supported ...

The first time I did chest compressions was for a young woman as she was being moved across the tile floor of a hospital bathroom. She had been found without identification down an inconspicuous ...

At large doses used recreationally (300 to > 1500 mg), dextromethorphan and its metabolite dextrophan block N -methyl-d-aspartate receptors, producing dissociative effects similar to those of ...

Since the last Canadian acne guideline was published in 2000, 17 evidence for multiple additional treatments has been published. Thus, there was an unmet need for an updated, systematically developed, ...

Background: Characterizing high-cost users of health care resources is essential for the development of appropriate interventions to improve the management of these patients. We sought to determine ...

Methods The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care is an independent panel of clinicians and methodologists that makes recommendations about clinical manoeuvres aimed at primary and secondary ...

Despite declining fertility, women over 40 years of age require effective contraception if they wish to avoid pregnancy. According to the 2011 Canadian census, 15% of the female population was aged 40 ...

What is known about the cardiovascular health benefits of polyunsaturated fatty acids? Polyunsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids with 2 or more double bonds in the carbon chain. The most ...

Food insecurity, or food poverty, describes uncertainty in consistently accessing nutritious food in socially acceptable ways. 1 Although food insecurity is only one of several important social ...

KEY POINTS Public awareness regarding the importance of disclosing and managing conflicts of interest (COIs) during the development of clinical practice and public health guidelines is growing, owing ...