A 39-year-old man presented to the emergency department with left forearm pain after a fall during a motorcycle accident, in ...

Key points A 55-year-old man with a left-sided goiter and local compression symptoms presented to our endocrinology clinic. He did not have dysphagia, dyspnea, or hoarseness. All laboratory results, ...

Among patients with acute coronary syndrome, for whom ASA may decrease morbidity and mortality (odds ratio 0.75),[2][1] a short but detailed history of reported adverse effects may allow clinicians to ...

I entered the intensive care unit on a Monday morning, buzzing from my first months of critical care fellowship. I was welcomed into the unit by a middle-aged attending I’d known for many years, his ...

Evidence from a variety of cross-sectional, longitudinal and empirical studies implicate smartphone and social media use in the increase in mental distress, self-injurious behaviour and suicidality ...

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 ...

Key points A 39-year-old otherwise healthy man presented to the emergency department with severe rectal pain and a 3-day ...

Young-onset type 2 diabetes is defined as type 2 diabetes diagnosed before age 40 years The annual incidence in Canada is 50–150 per 100 000 people aged 20–29 years and is rapidly rising. 1, 2 Type 2 ...

Funding: This work was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R25-DA037756 to Victoria Weaver). Nadia Fairbairn is supported by a Philip Owen Professorship in Addiction Medicine at the ...

The CanMEDS roles of professional and health advocate as defined seem to be at odds. Medicine’s current concept of professionalism is not designed to encourage advocacy in progressive movements or the ...

Despite advancements in treatment and HIV viral suppression, people with HIV experience a risk of myocardial infarction that is 1.73 times higher than in people without HIV.[1][1] Believed to be in ...

A 57-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with a 2-month history of fever and rash that had begun on her right hand and spread across her body over the previous 10 days. She had palp–able purpura ...