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, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key points A 53-year-old woman with rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma was seen in the radiation oncology clinic for her fifth and final fraction of neoadjuvant radiotherapy, where she reported chills, ...

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 ...