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A pregnant, primiparous 32-year-old woman at 28 weeks’ gestation presented for a routine prenatal visit. Blood work showed thrombocytopenia with platelet count of 60 (reference range 130–380) × 109/L.

A meta-analysis of 20 000 people from the general population who were patch tested confirmed a 20% prevalence of contact allergy, with nickel being the most common allergen (11.4%). 1 Prevalence is ...

When central venous access cannot be established delivering vasopressors via peripheral catheters is acceptable Administration of vasopressors through peripheral venous catheters has traditionally ...

Turtle Lodge — an example of an Indigenous-led model for wellness In restoring traditional Indigenous knowledge and practising self-determination in community health, the Turtle Lodge has built a ...

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 ...

Box 1: Evidence used in this review We drew on the international guideline on the management of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) published by the European Society of Human Reproduction and ...

This issue of CMAJ features Brenner and colleagues’ 1 projections for cancer diagnoses in Canada in 2024. Despite overall declines in cancer incidence and mortality, population growth and aging will ...

Stereotyping and ableist culture Ableism has long been entrenched in the culture of medicine, 11 driven by an illusion of a binary between sick and well that is perpetuated by societal, social and ...

The cutaneous findings associated with COVID-19 have been classified into 5 distinct patterns: a maculopapular eruption, chilblain lesions, urticarial lesions, a vesicular eruption and livedo ...

More than one in five Canadians — an estimated 6.5 million people — do not have a family physician or nurse practitioner they see regularly, according to a national survey. That’s a dramatic increase ...

KEY POINTS Artificial intelligence (AI) is often presented as the future of medical practice. The concept of AI was developed in the 1950s and has been defined as “the use of a computer to model ...