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: 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 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.

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 ...

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

Before 2021, single-game sports betting was illegal in Canada; now, in 2025, advertisements for sports betting platforms punctuate screened competitive sports games without limits on their duration or ...

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 ...

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% ...

People with cannabis-induced psychosis and cannabis use disorder are at high risk of schizophrenia A population-based retrospective cohort study of 9.8 million people in Ontario, Canada, found that ...

Pregnant people with measles are at higher risk of pneumonia, hepatitis, and hospitalization and have a 10-fold higher risk of death than those who are not pregnant.1 Infection also increases the risk ...