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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content of cannabis has roughly quintupled in the past 2 decades, from around 4% in the 2000s to more than 20% in most legal dried cannabis in Canada by 2023.[1][1] The ...

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 ...

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 ...