Background: Previous reports have suggested that the incidence of psychotic disorders has either been stable or decreasing over time in high-income countries, but overall trends may not capture birth ...

A 74-year-old man with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes presented to our nephrology clinic for follow-up of diabetic kidney disease with a serum creatinine of 180 (reference range 59 ...

An 81-year-old man presented to our emergency department with a 3-day history of fever and cough and was given a diagnosis of pneumonia. He reported a 9-kg weight loss over 2 years. He also reported ...

Key points Ontario’s Ministry of Health (MOH) recently introduced a policy mandating that, starting with the 2026 Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) cycle, only Canadian citizens or permanent ...

Symptomatic CPPD disease (formerly known as “pseudogout”) is more common in older than younger adults and typically affects joints with previous damage. Chondrocalcinosis visible on radiographs ...

A58-year-old woman presented to the emergency department. She had been vomiting and feeling confused for three days, and she had fallen several times. Three months before her presentation, the patient ...

Intramuscular epinephrine rapidly reverses airway edema and shock.[1][1] Current evidence does not support use of antihistamines and corticosteroids to prevent progression of anaphylaxis or biphasic ...

A healthy 8-year-old boy presented to our dermatology clinic with a 4-week history of worsening movement limitation and pain due to skin retraction of the right axilla. There were no constitutional ...

A 34-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) at 16 weeks’ gestation was found to have platelets unable to be quantified because of clumping on routine prenatal blood work, with a visual estimate of 40 ...

In patients who inject insulin, the most common cause of a soft-tissue abdominal mass is lipohypertrophy; however, insulin-derived amyloidosis should be included in the differential diagnosis for ...

Key points The definition and criteria used for reporting stillbirths in Canada are idiosyncratic and dated, and directly responsible for the country’s artificially high and rising stillbirth rate ...

Although tuberculosis (TB) disease is preventable and curable, it affects nearly 11 million people worldwide each year, more than 2000 of whom live in Canada. In Canada, TB overwhelmingly affects ...