A meta-analysis of 20 000 people from the general population who were patch tested confirmed a 20% prevalence of contact allergy, with nickel being the most common allergen (11.4%).1 Prevalence is ...

Footnotes. Competing interests: None declared. This article has been peer reviewed. Contributors: All of the authors contributed to the conception and design of the work, drafted the manuscript, ...

When central venous access cannot be established delivering vasopressors via peripheral catheters is acceptable. Administration of vasopressors through peripheral venous catheters has traditionally ...

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 ...

International examples of Indigenous-led health partnerships have also incorporated traditional Indigenous knowledge and culture. The Nuka System of Care, for example, respectfully designed in ...

More than one in five Canadians — an estimated 6.5 million people — do not have a family physician or nurse practitioner they see regularly, according to a national survey. That’s a dramatic increase ...

A 58-year-old woman, who had received her fifth cycle of docetaxel and carboplatin adjuvant chemotherapy for uterine cancer 10 days before admission, was referred to the rheumatology department with ...

Box 1: Evidence used in this review. We drew on the international guideline on the management of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) published by the European Society of Human Reproduction and ...

Health care workers logged more overtime in the second year of the pandemic than any time in the past decade. More than one in five health care workers logged overtime in 2021, according to the ...

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KEY POINTS The 2023 recipient of the Canadian Medical Association’s Dr. Ashok Muzumdar Memorial Award for Physicians with Disabilities is Dr. Jessica Dunkley.[1][1] One of the first Deaf physicians to ...

Data. Physicians need very few data (i.e., 2 to 4 pieces of contextual or clinical information) to generate diagnostic hypotheses through intuition.7, 14 Subsequently, and to verify the hypotheses ...