Background: The COVID-19 pandemic period was associated with increased alcohol consumption. We sought to estimate excess mortality and hospitalizations attributable to alcohol use in Canada between ...
An 81-year-old man with longstanding ankylosing spondylitis presented to the emergency department with pain in his lower back 2 days after a fall from standing height. The pain from the injury made it ...
KEY POINTS Canada is poised to become a “super-aged” country in 2025, when at least 20% of the nation’s population will be aged 65 years and older; furthermore, over the next 2 decades the number of ...
In their recent article, Caires and colleagues1 discussed the possible negative impact of inappropriate investigations following detection of coronary artery calcification during screening for lung ...
This human insulin analogue that comes in disposable pens prefilled with 1, 1.5, or 3 mL, dosed in 10-unit increments1 binds reversibly to albumin, which extends its half-life to around 7 days. Steady ...
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is defined as hearing loss of 30 or more decibels across 3 contiguous audiometric frequencies within 72 hours. The incidence is about 30 per 100 000 people annually ...
I was nearing the completion of my second year of practice in neurosurgery when Mr. B was referred to me. A man in his sixties, Mr. B had been having seizures of increasing frequency for several ...