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 ...
Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 76-year-old man on dabigatran for rate-controlled atrial fibrillation had follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) ...
A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with limping. On the morning of the presentation, she had jumped off ...
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 ...
Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are responsible for 20%–40% of emergency department visits for angioedema. [1] [1] The incidence of ACE inhibitor–induced angioedema is about 0.1%–0.7% ...
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 ...
Global prevalence is approximately 1–7 per 100 000 individuals, with women slightly more frequently affected than men. Peak occurrences are at age 16–25 and 36–46 years. A minority of cases occur in ...
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