See related guideline at Key points Arterial hypertension is the leading and most important risk factor for all-cause morbidity and mortality worldwide.[1][2] This is because high blood pressure ...

Videos available at [ Key points A 94-year-old man with parkinsonism, followed in our geriatric medicine clinic, presented for routine follow-up, during which his wife reported that he had a ...

Did you know the Toronto Maple Leafs were originally named the Toronto St. Patricks? They once donned a bright green clover instead of the now familiar blue and white. It wasn’t until 1919, when Conn ...

BACKGROUND: Indigenous peoples in Canada have high rates of psychological distress and suicide. We sought to assess the socioeconomic inequalities in psychological distress and suicidal behaviours, ...

Background: Long wait times for scheduled surgery are a major problem in Canadian health systems. We sought to determine the extent to which single-entry referral models (next available consultation), ...

Key points Canada’s health systems face many challenges. An aging population and health human resource crisis is placing them under intense pressure. Economic growth is not maintaining pace with the ...

A 50-year-old woman presented to our neurology clinic with a 7-year history of recurrent left-sided facial flushing and ...

Patients are categorized as being at low, intermediate, or high risk of falling after screening Older adults with 1 of the following are deemed high risk (70% risk of ≥ 1 falls in the next year): 2 or ...

Indigenous methods and methodologies are increasingly recognized as valuable tools to improve research practices and outcomes. Ethical guidelines, community-based and partnership approaches, and ...

DoxyPEP involves taking a single dose of oral doxycycline 200 mg within 72 hours after condomless sex (maximum dose: doxycycline 200 mg per 24 h). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Prioritizing urgency in surgery in Canada leads to a problem of 2 wait lists: a growing wait list of urgent cases and a much larger wait list of scheduled cases that frequently become delayed past ...

Personalized care is the careful tailoring of investigations and treatments to individual patients based on evidence, consideration of circumstances and clinical skill. Precision medicine relies on ...