Background: Race is a social construct reflecting broader systemic forces that can affect health, including mental health. We ...

An 82-year-old woman with metastatic urothelial carcinoma and hepatic metastases was admitted to hospital for profound neutropenia and general clinical deterioration. She was referred to our ...

The first time a patient handed me a health report generated with artificial intelligence (AI), I paused in disbelief. It wasn’t the creatinine level that unsettled me — it was the conclusion at the ...

Alongside an overall decline in health care–associated infections in Canadian hospitals, infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant organisms, while low in prevalence, are rising.

Background: The prevalence of tuberculosis infection is critical to the design of tuberculosis prevention strategies, yet is unknown in Canada. We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection ...

Heat waves are associated with a 9.7% increase in mental health–related hospital presentations, and mental illness is one of the strongest predictors of heat-related deaths (odds ratio 3.61, 95% ...

Before 2021, single-game sports betting was illegal in Canada; now, in 2025, advertisements for sports betting platforms punctuate screened competitive sports games without limits on their duration or ...

Background: The post-acute burden of health care use after SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown. We sought to quantify the post-acute burden of health care use after SARS-CoV-2 infection among ...

Background: Ground-level falls are common among older adults and are the most frequent cause of traumatic intracranial bleeding. The aim of this study was to derive a clinical decision rule that ...

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 ...

KEY POINTS Public awareness regarding the importance of disclosing and managing conflicts of interest (COIs) during the development of clinical practice and public health guidelines is growing, owing ...

Smoking marijuana can increase clearance of some drugs Smoked marijuana increases the clearance of theophylline 40%. 1 Similar findings would be expected for other drugs metabolized by CYP1A2, such as ...