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 ...

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 ...

Continuous glucose monitors can predict some imminent hypoglycemic episodes, allowing a proactive approach to treatment.3 People living with diabetes treated with basal and meal-time insulin could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recommendation The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends against instrument-based depression screening using a questionnaire with cut-off score to distinguish “screen positive” and ...

Background: The frequency of readmissions after COVID-19 hospitalizations is uncertain, as is whether current readmission prediction equations are useful for discharge risk stratification of COVID-19 ...

Diet is associated with depressive symptoms A 2024 umbrella review — including nearly 10 million participants enrolled in observational studies — found that people who consumed more ultra-processed ...