Anaplasmosis is the second most common tick-borne disease in Canada, with rapidly rising incidence owing to the expanding ...
Tinea corporis and cruris are typically treated with topical azoles or terbinafine, to which T. indotineae is often resistant 2, 3 Oral fluconazole or terbinafine are also commonly ineffective. 3 ...
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A 40-year-old man emigrated from India 2 years ago and has no prior medical conditions. He requested a clinic visit with his ...
Background: We undertook research to improve the AGREE instrument, a tool used to evaluate guidelines. We tested a new seven-point scale, evaluated the usefulness of the original items in the ...
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Background: Canada has achieved near-universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and yet interoperability, the secure exchange and use of health data across different systems and settings, ...
Background: Pharmacotherapy is a key component of comprehensive obesity management, alongside behavioural therapy and metabolic and bariatric surgery. In this guideline, we update the pharmacotherapy ...
Management of patients living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) requires specialized multidisciplinary holistic care. Disease-modifying pharmacologic therapies to treat ALS include riluzole and ...
Up to 0.3% of males will receive a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa in their lifetime.1 Affected males have a 6-times higher mortality rate than those in the general population. 2 Stigma, poor mental ...
Polyneuropathy is a common neurologic condition with a variety of subtypes that involve the motor, sensory or autonomic fibres. Distal symmetric polyneuropathy is the most common subtype of ...
Chronic spontaneous urticaria affects 1% to 3% of people It is not an allergy and carries no risk of anaphylaxis, but is a chronic type 2 inflammatory disease driven by autoimmune mast cell activation ...