Background:Whether sedative prescriptions after hospital admissions are associated with poor patient outcomes is unknown. We sought to determine the incidence and risk of adverse events associated ...

Plain text No HTML tags allowed. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Earn CPD Credits This article is eligible for .5 Mainpro+ credits. Did you read this article? Mainpro+ credits will be transferred automatically for members of the College of Family Physicians of ...

Limbal dermoids are rare ectopic skin lesions with adnexal elements (e.g., hairs, glands) on the ocular surface. Their epithelium shows features of both hair epidermal and limbal epithelial stem cells ...

The Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the CMAJ gives strategic - and, occasionally, specific - advice to the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and serves as a connection between the CMAJ and its stakeholders ...

Among the 5 serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis, serogroup B causes the highest incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Canada 1, 2 Invasive meningococcal disease causes meningococcemia ...

It effectively reduces the risk of bacterial STIs A meta-analysis of 3 randomized controlled trials showed a 60% reduction in risk of any STI (81% decrease for chlamydia, 77% for syphilis, and 45% for ...

Retinal detachment is an important cause of vision loss Retinal detachment occurs when vitreous fluid enters through a retinal tear or hole leading to separation of the retina from the choroid, ...

The differential diagnosis of conjunctival lesions include complexion-associated melanosis (CAM), nevus, primary acquired melanosis (PAM), and melanoma. 1 Most conjunctival melanomas arise from ...

More than half of pregnant people use acetaminophen, most commonly for pain.1 Compared with alternatives, acetaminophen is the best studied analgesic and antipyretic in pregnancy and has the most ...

Isopropanol toxicity is common Isopropanol exposure, the second most common alcohol-related call to poison centres, 1 occurs when isopropanol is ingested with or as a substitute to ethanol.

Background: The FoodRx randomized controlled trial (RCT) studied the impact of a healthy food incentive program among adults with type 2 diabetes and food insecurity (including an Indigenous subset), ...