See related editorial at Key points Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) disease affects nearly 11 million people worldwide per year, more than 2000 of whom live in Canada.[1][2], ...
See related editorial at Key points In 2002, the G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, launched the G8 Africa Action Plan,[1][2] which identified HIV/AIDS as a central threat to human development and ...
During his 2018 election campaign, recognizing health care access as a top priority for his electorate, Quebec Premier François Legault promised that all residents of Quebec would be rostered with a ...
See related articles at and [ Commentaries in this issue of CMAJ highlight Canada’s mixed performance on tackling 2 globally important infectious diseases: tuberculosis (TB) and HIV.[1][3],[2][4] Ano ...
KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department. [1] [1] It is a clinical spectrum ...
Key points A 62-year-old man with hypertension and chronic renal disease presented to an emergency department with abdominal ...
In October 2018, recreational use of cannabis was legalized in Canada with the primary objectives of improving cannabis-related public health and safety, reducing youth access to cannabis, and ...
A 57-year-old man presented to our dermatology clinic with a 10-day history of pruritic, bullous, erosive lesions involving the hands, lower legs, oral mucosa, and glans penis ([Figure 1][1]). They de ...
Key points Few issues generate more public concern in Canadian health care than long wait times for surgical procedures. Delays in care are associated with physical pain, psychological distress, ...
BACKGROUND: We previously derived the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule to identify subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients with acute headache. Our objective was to validate the rule in a new ...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan ...
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 ...