Guidelines

Some of the risk factors identified by the researchers include working more than 10 hours a day in the second trimester, working six night shifts per month and working eight hours a day in the operating room.

Systematic review and meta-analysis compares effects of 17 oral monotherapies for acute management of migraine episodes in adults.

 It also no longer recommends testing for vitamin D levels in people with dark skin, pregnant people or obese people.

Phobia of topical corticosteroids helps explain poor adherence by eczema patients.

University of Calgary law professor Lorian Hardcastle said it’s hard to know the impacts without seeing the amending legislation.

Results challenge current thinking that contralateral breast cancer is a new primary tumour likely to metastasize.

Canada needs an equitable, pan-Canadian genetic testing system, argues the report on the healthcare system and rare diseases.

The province says it plans to progressively lower the age for self-referrals to 40 from 50, with a plan to get to the age of 45 for testing by the end of next year.