A meta-analysis of 20 000 people from the general population who were patch tested confirmed a 20% prevalence of contact allergy, with nickel being the most common allergen (11.4%).1 Prevalence is ...

When central venous access cannot be established delivering vasopressors via peripheral catheters is acceptable. Administration of vasopressors through peripheral venous catheters has traditionally ...

International examples of Indigenous-led health partnerships have also incorporated traditional Indigenous knowledge and culture. The Nuka System of Care, for example, respectfully designed in ...

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 ...

Box 1: Evidence used in this review. We drew on the international guideline on the management of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) published by the European Society of Human Reproduction and ...

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KEY POINTS The 2023 recipient of the Canadian Medical Association’s Dr. Ashok Muzumdar Memorial Award for Physicians with Disabilities is Dr. Jessica Dunkley.[1][1] One of the first Deaf physicians to ...

A 45-year-old man presented with a horizontal groove over all his fingernails and toenails. The grooves were most noticeable over his great toenails bilaterally, with a horizontal groove 5 mm from the ...

More than one in five Canadians — an estimated 6.5 million people — do not have a family physician or nurse practitioner they see regularly, according to a national survey. That’s a dramatic increase ...

Data. Physicians need very few data (i.e., 2 to 4 pieces of contextual or clinical information) to generate diagnostic hypotheses through intuition.7, 14 Subsequently, and to verify the hypotheses ...

A 58-year-old woman, who had received her fifth cycle of docetaxel and carboplatin adjuvant chemotherapy for uterine cancer 10 days before admission, was referred to the rheumatology department with ...

KEY POINTS The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has laid bare some of the ways in which social structures lead to inequalities in health. It has also revealed Canada’s poor infrastructure for ...