Key points Canada’s health systems are stressed with increasing demands for health care and services. The causes of this stress are multifactorial and include an aging population and a health ...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism has been linked to adverse renal outcomes, but it is unknown whether treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism reduces the risk of these adverse outcomes. We ...

Key points The provision of health care is hard and, understandably, clinicians struggle. Beyond meaningful health care interactions, clinicians must also integrate large volumes of demographic, ...

Care should include explicit statements affirming patient choice. Clinicians with faith-based objections should provide timely, tolerant referral; judgmental or obstructive care may result in ...

Background: Fragility fractures are a major health concern for older adults and can result in disability, admission to hospital and long-term care, and reduced quality of life. This Canadian Task ...

KEY POINTS Clinicians may be concerned about the potential of electronic patient portals to disrupt the therapeutic relationship, deliver medicolegal burdens or harm patients, but these fears are ...

Without more acute care beds, hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises ...

HIV-1 can be successfully treated with long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy A dual regimen combining the integrase strand transfer inhibitor cabotegravir with the nonnucleoside reverse ...

Symptoms of diverticulitis may be driven by inflammation rather than infection Contemporary evidence shows that use of antibiotics in uncomplicated cases of diverticulitis neither accelerates recovery ...

KEY POINTS Multifactorial early-pregnancy screening for preeclampsia can identify most patients at risk, particularly of early-onset, severe disease. Prophylaxis with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) can ...

KEY POINTS In most medical subspecialties, genetic and genomic testing have become a routine part of clinical care. However, access to genetic testing at the patient, provider, and provincial levels ...

Trichomoniasis is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection worldwide Although trichomoniasis is not a reportable disease, the estimated North American prevalence is 2.8%–3.1% among women ...