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 ...

Key points The health implications of exposures to the Alberta oil sands are underresearched, despite more than a decade of calls from Indigenous communities and researchers for further investigation.

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

Key points Dried plasma is dehydrated, powdered human plasma. Once mixed with sterile water, the reconstituted plasma delivers essential coagulation factors necessary for hemostasis and supports ...

Key points More than a decade after the launch of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), patient engagement is increasingly expected across the health research ecosystem.

BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease Study represents a large and systematic effort to describe the burden of diseases and injuries over the past 3 decades. We aimed to summarize the Canadian data ...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease refers to a spectrum of diseases from hepatic steatosis to NASH, a condition where fat accumulation causes inflammation and hepatocyte injury leading to cirrhosis. [1] ...

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

Global prevalence is approximately 1–7 per 100 000 individuals, with women slightly more frequently affected than men. Peak occurrences are at age 16–25 and 36–46 years. A minority of cases occur in ...

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% ...

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 ...