Despite investment in harm-reduction initiatives, safer supply, and treatment for adult patients, the opioid overdose crisis in Canada continues. More than 18 people in Canada still die every day from ...

See related article at Key points In this issue’s research article, Rebić and colleagues show that rates of opioid prescribing across 6 Canadian provinces declined gradually from 2018 to 2022, with n ...

Key points Despite the introduction of many innovative approaches to the prevention and management of substance use disorder (SUD) by clinicians, peers, public health practitioners, policy-makers and ...

KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department. [1] [1] It is a clinical spectrum ...

A 63-year-old woman with a 20-year history of hidradenitis suppurativa, classified as Hurley Stage III (a disease-specific ...

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 ...

Background: Depression negatively affects how a person feels, thinks, or behaves; is associated with impaired functioning in social and work settings; and can be associated with thoughts of suicide.

Key points A 40-year-old woman presented to her family physician with a new subcutaneous mass in the right lower quadrant of her abdomen, along with nonspecific systemic symptoms, including occasional ...

Demodex folliculorum is a saprophytic parasitic mite of the pilosebaceous follicle and seborrheic glands and is found mainly on the face of adult men. 1, 2 The role of Demodex mites in inflammatory ...

Although trichomoniasis is not a reportable disease, the estimated North American prevalence is 2.8%–3.1% among women and 0.2%–0.5% among men, with higher rates in patients with multiple sexual ...

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