Background: A substantial number of hospital admissions end in patient-initiated departure before medical treatment is ...

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Clinical Images: Amoebic colitis in a 39-year-old man with HIV ...

Diagnosis requires left ventricular regional wall motion abnormalities that extend beyond a single coronary artery distribution in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Approximately ...

The incidence of infertility, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy complications is substantially higher among female surgeons of childbearing age than in the general population and other specialties.

Symptoms and signs of thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) include superficial thrombophlebitis, Raynaud phenomenon, and distal extremity ischemia (foot or calf claudication or both; rest pain; dry or wet ...

I wake in the night feeling a strangeness about my heart, breathless, as if I’ve just climbed a mountain. But how is this possible? I’m young and healthy and the steadiness of the heart is a given, no ...

“Before medically advised” departure from hospital and subsequent drug overdose: a population-based cohort study ...

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines could reduce disease burden and costs in older Canadian adults, but vaccination program cost-effectiveness is unknown. We evaluated the ...