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Key points A 36-year-old Black woman presented to the emergency department in a coma (Glasgow Coma Scale 4) after an unwitnessed fall in the bathroom. She was healthy before the fall and had had 2 ...
A recent meta-analysis showed that, compared with the left-lateral going-to-sleep position, the supine going-to-sleep position was associated with stillbirth (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2.63, 95% ...
Key points According to recent federal data, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Canada increased by 20% from 2018 to 2022, with 10% of those who reported being unhoused in the Census ...
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Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...
See related article at In this issue of CMAJ , Science and colleagues summarize the latest information on the management of measles exposures in pregnancy and the potential complications of measles ...
A 32-year-old woman presented to our emergency department 2 days after the onset of bilateral hand swelling. Two weeks earlier, her 8-year-old son had had an erythematous rash on both cheeks. A week ...
See related article at In a related analysis, Abdel-Rahman and colleagues[1][2] discuss how the marked improvement in quantity and quality of life experienced by some people with cancer who receive ...
An 81-year-old man presented to the emergency department after 2 episodes of uncontrollable shaking, each lasting several minutes, accompanied by a sensation of extreme cold. He and his partner stated ...
Videos available at [ Key points A 94-year-old man with parkinsonism, followed in our geriatric medicine clinic, presented for routine follow-up, during which his wife reported that he had a ...