A 40-year-old man emigrated from India 2 years ago and has no prior medical conditions. He requested a clinic visit with his ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a venous thrombus becomes lodged in lung arteries, causing impairment in oxygenation, circulation, and heart function, potentially with fatal consequences. Risk ...

Cases in which a blood culture grows Staphylococcus aureus should always be treated as a true bloodstream infection Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with substantial mortality and ...

Background: Whether sedative prescriptions after hospital admissions are associated with poor patient outcomes is unknown. We sought to determine the incidence and risk of adverse events associated ...

Intra-articular glucocorticoid injections can be considered for short-term (2- to 6-week) management of pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis 1, 2 These injections provide modest relief (on ...

Lecanemab is a monoclonal antibody therapy for early Alzheimer disease that is approved for use in Canada; however, Canada’s Drug Agency and Quebec’s Institut national d’excellence en santé et en ...

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Background: Adverse events (AEs) are adverse outcomes caused by medical care. Several studies have indicated that a substantial number of patients experience AEs before or during hospitalization.

The gastrointestinal pathogen Entamoeba histolytica causes amoebiasis Clinical severity ranges from the asymptomatic passage of cysts in the stool to fulminant dysentery. Potentially fatal ...