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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 ...

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KEY POINTS Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is common and can be treated with over-the-counter vaginal lubricants or supplementation with vaginal estrogen. Vaginal energy devices (such as CO2 ...

CMAJ June 09, 2025 197 (22) E627-E628; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.250820 ...

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 ...

Background: Recent data suggest an increased risk of congenital anomalies with prenatal exposure to opioid analgesics. We sought to further quantify the risk of anomalies after opioid analgesic ...

Bell palsy is an idiopathic weakness or paralysis of the face of peripheral nerve origin, with acute onset. It affects 20–30 persons per 100 000 annually, and 1 in 60 individuals will be affected over ...

METHODS: We used an age-structured compartmental model of COVID-19 transmission in the population of Ontario, Canada. We compared a base case with limited testing, isolation and quarantine to ...

Why test people who have no symptoms of COVID-19? A 2020 study of transmission dynamics in Taiwan showed that the infectious period for COVID-19 starts 2–3 days before symptom onset and continues to ...

Background: The prevalence of tuberculosis infection is critical to the design of tuberculosis prevention strategies, yet is unknown in Canada. We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection ...

KEY POINTS Institutional betrayal is a phenomenon in which institutions uphold anti-Black racism by explaining it away as other phenomena, thereby betraying Black members of an organization who bring ...