Background: Survivors of cancer in adolescence and young adulthood are at increased risk for subsequent primary neoplasms, ...
Background: Cancer is the leading cause of death and has major health and economic impacts on people in Canada. We sought to provide updated estimates of cancer incidence and mortality to highlight ...
Croup develops in more than 80 000 Canadian children each year, making it the second most common cause of respiratory distress in the first decade of life. [1] [1], [2] [2] It affects boys more than ...
Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) affects 1% of reproductive-aged women In POI, ovarian follicles become depleted or dysfunctional in people younger than 40 years. Risk factors include family ...
Background: The response of Canada’s research community to the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to examine the country’s clinical health research ecosystem. We sought to describe ...
Marco L.A. Sivilotti, Mark C. Yarema and David N. Juurlink ...
Figure 1: Photograph of a 71-year-old woman with vulvar lichen sclerosus, showing a large, atrophic, shiny, white plaque with petechia, involving the vulva, perineum and perianal areas in the classic ...
In recent weeks, hundreds of emergency physicians in Canada have signed open letters describing their inability to provide safe and timely care in overcrowded and understaffed emergency departments ...
See related article at Key points In this issue of CMAJ , Geboe and colleagues present the results of a qualitative community-based participatory study of Inuit experiences of the ongoing epidemic of ...
A 67-year-old man with a history of type 2 diabetes, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and hypertension presents to the emergency department with a skin ulceration on the bottom of his great toe ...
A 16-year-old adolescent boy presented to the emergency department after a noncontact injury to his right leg during a basketball game. He reported landing with excessive internal rotation in knee ...
Key points A 69-year-old man presented to a dermatology clinic with a 1-day history of a painful erythematous rash. Four days ...