Key points Canada’s health systems are stressed with increasing demands for health care and services. The causes of this stress are multifactorial and include an aging population and a health ...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism has been linked to adverse renal outcomes, but it is unknown whether treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism reduces the risk of these adverse outcomes. We ...

Key points The provision of health care is hard and, understandably, clinicians struggle. Beyond meaningful health care interactions, clinicians must also integrate large volumes of demographic, ...

Care should include explicit statements affirming patient choice. Clinicians with faith-based objections should provide timely, tolerant referral; judgmental or obstructive care may result in ...

Key points Health data are critical to health systems in Canada, but the potential of these data to be accessed and used by foreign entities for surveillance purposes without consent is concerning.

Most youth aged 12–25 years are students at secondary schools, colleges, or universities. They often seek help during a mental health crisis, which is defined as an experience of escalating distress, ...

Asymptomatic infection or mild symptoms are common, but symptoms may recur Oropouche virus disease is usually mild with self-limiting symptoms of fever, chills, headache, and myalgias, similar to ...

Prevention of harms from opioids prescribed by physicians is complicated by the need to ameliorate patients’ suffering from acute pain. Opioid-naive patients pose a particular challenge, as they may ...

KEY POINTS Physical activity is a modifiable risk factor for more than 30 chronic conditions relevant to the older adult; 150 minutes per week of moderate physical activity can reduce all-cause ...

Wildfire seasons are getting longer and more severe in Canada. Wildfire smoke caused 710 emergency department visits for respiratory conditions and 250 for cardiac conditions in 2017.[1][1] During ...

Background: Cancer surveillance data are essential to help understand where gaps exist and progress is being made in cancer control. We sought to summarize the expected impact of cancer in Canada in ...