Climate change is driving the emergence and re-emergence of climate-sensitive infectious diseases in Canada. Such emerging ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a severe tick-borne infection The disease is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and is ...

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are gram-negative bacteria resistant to carbapenems, antibiotics that are historically drugs of last resort in treating multidrug-resistant infections.

Not in the medical therapy I offer, but rather in exposing the limits of my language. At the start of my training, I subconsciously regarded conditions like AIS as belonging to the edges of a ...

Platypnea–orthodeoxia syndrome is diagnosed when a patient endorses positional dyspnea and there is evidence of arterial ...

The diagnosis of ascariasis is made by identifying the expelled adult worm macroscopically or by identifying its ova by stool ...

Outbreaks of Mycoplasma pneumoniae occur every 3–7 years 1 The proportion of respiratory tract infections caused by M. pneumoniae ranges from 0% to 30%, depending on the year and region studied. 2 ...

Endometrial polyps are found in as many as 40% of females 1 – 3 The incidence may be underestimated as many polyps remain asymptomatic and naturally regress in almost one-third of patients (27%). 1 – ...

A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with painful necrotic leg ulcers (Figure 1). He exhibited narcotic-seeking behaviour, such as requesting narcotics daily, refusing non-narcotic analgesia and ...

This issue of CMAJ features the updated Canadian guideline on screening for high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, which recommends screening everyone aged 12 years and older.1 Screening ...

Background: We sought to determine the lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury and its association with current health conditions in a representative sample of homeless people in Toronto, ...

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