Background: Race is a social construct reflecting broader systemic forces that can affect health, including mental health. We ...

An 82-year-old woman with metastatic urothelial carcinoma and hepatic metastases was admitted to hospital for profound neutropenia and general clinical deterioration. She was referred to our ...

The first time a patient handed me a health report generated with artificial intelligence (AI), I paused in disbelief. It wasn’t the creatinine level that unsettled me — it was the conclusion at the ...

Heat waves are associated with a 9.7% increase in mental health–related hospital presentations, and mental illness is one of the strongest predictors of heat-related deaths (odds ratio 3.61, 95% ...

Before 2021, single-game sports betting was illegal in Canada; now, in 2025, advertisements for sports betting platforms punctuate screened competitive sports games without limits on their duration or ...

KEY POINTS Alongside an overall decline in health care–associated infections in Canadian hospitals, infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant organisms, while low in prevalence, are rising.

Figure 1: (A) Numerous black–brown granules attached to the left eyelashes and eyelids of a 77-year-old woman with phthiriasis palpebrarum. (B) Dermoscopy showed multiple lice and ovoid nits on the ...

BACKGROUND: Household food insecurity, a measure of income-related problems of food access, is a pressing public health problem in Canada’s North, especially in Nunavut. We aimed to assess the impact ...

Preventive medicine displays all 3 elements of arrogance. First, it is aggressively assertive, pursuing symptomless individuals and telling them what they must do to remain healthy. Occasionally ...

What are the features of machine-learned models? Herein we use the term “machine-learned model” to refer to a model that has been created by running a supervised machine learning algorithm on a ...

BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiologic findings suggest that socioeconomic inequalities in health may be widening over time. We examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in premature and avoidable ...

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 ...