The tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content of cannabis has roughly quintupled in the past 2 decades, from around 4% in the 2000s to more than 20% in most legal dried cannabis in Canada by 2023.[1][1] The ...

Scope The Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations are intended to provide up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and management of conditions that are of concern to the Heart ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses wide variation in symptom severity and functional impact. The core features of ASD include impairments in social communication, repetitive behaviours and ...

See related article at When I tell the story of my son’s birth, people are often surprised that I am not angry with the physician who wielded the forceps at his delivery, asphyxiating him and causing ...

See related article at In this issue of CMAJ , Laura MacGregor describes her harrowing experience of seeking restitution following her son’s birth injury, which had left him with severe neurologic an ...

An 86-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fever, headache, nuchal rigidity, and restricted neck rotation that developed 2 weeks after tooth extractions. He had received cefcapene ...

Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and fracture prevention in Canada: 2023 update Diagnosis and management of iron deficiency in females Hypertension Canada guideline for the ...

Background: The relation between emergency department opioid prescribing and subsequent harm is complex and poorly studied. We sought to quantify adverse outcomes, incremental risk, and rates of ...

Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common during pregnancy and are associated with adverse outcomes Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada. 1 It has been ...

Background: In Canada, low awareness of evidence-based interventions for the clinical management of alcohol use disorder exists among health care providers and people who could benefit from care. To ...