Premise /
BY: A. Wellar
May 2025
... creation of a coordinated substance use system of care.[ 4,5 ] Frontline health care providers agreed and highlighted ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc
May 2025
... leading to lower screening rates and increased mortality.[ 4,5 ] Community-based cancer screening events such as ... to participate in the event. Of those, 354 patients (66.4%) participated in the pre-Pap survey, and 309 patients ...
Letters /
BY: Rashmi Chadha, MBChB, MScCH, CCFP (AM), FASAM
May 2025
... of and action on health care’s contribution to 4% of national greenhouse gas emissions[ 7 ] and pollution ... health systems moving to low-carbon/low-waste care.[ 4 ] Here are two examples of how health care sustainability ...
Original Research /
BY: Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC
June 2025
... to consider the cultural context in which they occur.[ 4 ] Culture includes one’s beliefs, ideas, and customs that are shared within an individual’s community.[ 4 ] The importance of cultural knowledge when having these ... with advance care planning and advance directives.[ 4,6 ] In many home countries of the South Asian diaspora, ...
Original Research /
BY: Emily Meagher, MPH
June 2025
... and other postviral conditions and with fibromyalgia.[ 4 ] Patients with complex chronic diseases often have ... mental health metrics were significantly different [ Table 4 ] . Patients who took part in the individual-based model of ... than those in the group-based model, or an approximately 1.4-point decrease in scores from baseline to 6-month ...
Premise /
BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD
June 2025
... opposed to passive objects in need of adult protection.[ 2-4 ] The UNCRC is widely approved, with 196 countries ... of a child’s well-being remains controversial.[ 4,5 ] The UNCRC in Canada The Canadian government ratified the UNCRC in 1991, with two reservations.[ 4 ] The first reservation concerned article 21, which ...
Premise /
BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC
June 2025
... describing his encounter at a local emergency department.[ 4 ] He received a 7-day course of antibiotics for a minor ... are inherently weird, and should generally be avoided: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 days. Also, 3.14159265 days.[ 5 ] The ... in the blanks? Most of us would likely answer 10 days and 4 weeks, but why? Do these number sequences serve a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD
June 2025
... cyanotoxins[ 3 ] or multiply rapidly, forming blooms[ 4,5 ] [ Figure 1 ] . Such blooms can cause hypoxic water ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
June 2025
... pilot project in 13 participating communities.[ 1 ] A new 4-year pilot was then initiated in more communities and to ... 25 km/h is permitted by those 14 years of age and older.[ 4 ] However, enforcement and compliance with these rules have ...
Editorials /
BY: Terri Aldred, MD
June 2025
... the issue, the Indian Act is an assimilation policy.[ 4 ] It was created to “manage the Indian problem” until ...