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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Not always, but too often, my patient and I both watch my right hand as it shakes. Sometimes, to finish writing a prescription, I steady it with my left hand. Oops. And I wonder: Should I address 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 ...

Background: Consent forms have become too long and often do little to help people understand the risk elements of their participation in research, instead focusing on risk reduction for research ...

People with cannabis-induced psychosis and cannabis use disorder are at high risk of schizophrenia A population-based retrospective cohort study of 9.8 million people in Ontario, Canada, found that ...

Pregnant people with measles are at higher risk of pneumonia, hepatitis, and hospitalization and have a 10-fold higher risk of death than those who are not pregnant.1 Infection also increases the risk ...

Although pleural infection complicates less than 10% of pneumonia-related hospital admissions, the incidence is rising globally. [1] [1] In Ontario (1996–2015), cases increased from 2.9 to 6.7 per 100 ...

Figure 1: (A) Swelling of the right upper and lower eyelid, with purulent discharge (arrow), in a 61-year-old man with Pott puffy tumour. (B) Sagittal computed tomography scan showing frontal sinus ...