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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Key points Canada’s health care systems are under strain, with 6.5 million people in Canada lacking a primary care provider,[1][1] which increases patient complexity and volumes and contributes to ...

Background: “Before medically advised” (BMA) hospital discharge is associated with higher risks for subsequent death and drug overdose. We sought to develop prediction models to estimate the absolute ...

A 35-year-old man presented to the dermatology department with penile ulcers. Two weeks previously, the initial ulcer had begun as a papule, progressed to a painful ulcer, and then spread. Soon after ...