INTRODUCTION: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted breast, colon, prostate, and lung cancer screenings in the U.S. by decreasing screening numbers.We believe multiple types of cancer screenings may have been impacted during
In this interview, Leah Smith unpacks a research article that looked at cancer incidence trends by age in Canada from 1971 to 2015. Previous reports show cancer trends with all ages combined but this data analysis digs deeper into trends by age group
Dr. Jonathan Zipursky and Dr. Nathan Stall discuss cannabis edibles, and what's important for users and health care providers to keep in mind.
Dr. Zipursky is an internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and
Portable Medical Equipment (PME) such as workstation-on-wheels (WOWs) and vital signs machines (VMs) are routinely used by healthcare workers (HCWs) for patient care.1,2 Transmission of healthcare-associated infections has been attributed to PME and
Due to its high morbidity and mortality, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to a dramatic increase in the number of hospitalized patients in intensive care units (ICU).1 In order to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to other patients and health care
CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac adipose tissue index and IL-6 determination at admission could help physicians to better identify diabetic patients with a potentially severe and lethal short term course irrespective of obesity. Diabetic patients with high CATi