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 ...

The relationship between maternal obesity and stillbirth has been well established. 1 – 3 Compared with pregnant people with normal body mass index (BMI), those with obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0) have 2–5 ...

KEY POINTS Recreational use of nitrous oxide is a growing problem in many jurisdictions, including Canada. Although isolated, short-term use rarely leads to serious complications, chronic use can ...

Background: Fragility fractures are a major health concern for older adults and can result in disability, admission to hospital and long-term care, and reduced quality of life. This Canadian Task ...

KEY POINTS Canada has long struggled to maintain an appropriately sized physician workforce.[1][1]–[4][2] The recruitment of foreign-trained physicians over recent decades and, starting in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

KEY POINTS Public awareness regarding the importance of disclosing and managing conflicts of interest (COIs) during the development of clinical practice and public health guidelines is growing, owing ...

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 of ...

BACKGROUND: Health services have failed to respond to the pressures of multimorbidity. Improved measures of multimorbidity are needed for conducting research, planning services and allocating ...

Chronic noncancer pain includes any painful condition that persists for at least three months and is not associated with malignant disease.[1][1] According to seven national surveys conducted between ...

As people age, changes to the structure and the function of the brain may result in cognitive decline. These changes, however, do not equally affect all cognitive domains or all people. Older adults ...