See related editorial at Key points Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) disease affects nearly 11 million people worldwide per year, more than 2000 of whom live in Canada.[1][2], ...
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Canada’s reduced pledge to the Global Fund will threaten infectious disease control at home
See related articles at and [ Commentaries in this issue of CMAJ highlight Canada’s mixed performance on tackling 2 globally important infectious diseases: tuberculosis (TB) and HIV.[1][3],[2][4] Ano ...
During his 2018 election campaign, recognizing health care access as a top priority for his electorate, Quebec Premier François Legault promised that all residents of Quebec would be rostered with a ...
See related editorial at Key points In 2002, the G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, launched the G8 Africa Action Plan,[1][2] which identified HIV/AIDS as a central threat to human development and ...
KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department. [1] [1] It is a clinical spectrum ...
In October 2018, recreational use of cannabis was legalized in Canada with the primary objectives of improving cannabis-related public health and safety, reducing youth access to cannabis, and ...
Key points A 62-year-old man with hypertension and chronic renal disease presented to an emergency department with abdominal ...
A 57-year-old man presented to our dermatology clinic with a 10-day history of pruritic, bullous, erosive lesions involving the hands, lower legs, oral mucosa, and glans penis ([Figure 1][1]). They de ...
BACKGROUND: We previously derived the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule to identify subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients with acute headache. Our objective was to validate the rule in a new ...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan ...
A 65-year-old man presented to hospital with hemoptysis, epistaxis, headache and syncope. His medical history included antiphospholipid antibody syndrome with recurrent deep vein thrombosis, most ...
Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common during pregnancy and are associated with adverse outcomes Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada. 1 It has been ...
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