Background: Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in Canada. The objective of this Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care guideline is to provide primary care ...

See related article at In this issue of CMAJ , the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care presents its new guideline on interventions for tobacco smoking cessation.[1][2] Every time clinicians ...

Key points A 71-year-old arable and livestock farmer from Southwestern Ontario was transferred from a peripheral hospital to our tertiary care centre owing to an 18-month history of cognitive decline ...

Key points United States Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently dismissed all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a respected body of technical experts whose ...

Pregnancy of unknown location occurs in 10% of pregnant patients undergoing transvaginal ultrasound in the first trimester Patients presenting with a positive pregnancy test and vaginal bleeding or ...

People with cannabis-induced psychosis and cannabis use disorder are at high risk of schizophrenia A population-based retrospective cohort study of 9.8 million people in Ontario, Canada, found that ...

Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is common, disabling and underrecognized in clinical practice Patients with primary headache disorders who overuse analgesia are at risk for MOH, in which the ...

Worldwide, 30% of people aged 65 years or older who are living in the community fall each year, and among people aged 85 years or older, this proportion increases to nearly 40%. 1, 2 Falls frequently ...

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 ...

Pressurized metered-dose (pMDI) inhalers are an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions Hydrofluorocarbon propellants in pMDIs are responsible for roughly 0.03% of yearly global greenhouse ...

Background: The relation between emergency department opioid prescribing and subsequent harm is complex and poorly studied. We sought to quantify adverse outcomes, incremental risk, and rates of ...