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The healthy, fair-skinned, unhappy boy asked me to look at a rash on his arm. The rash had begun as a small ‘pimple’ over two weeks previously, and was enlarging.

See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.

A modern medical fable, with apologies to Ashkenazi folklore and Julia Donaldson.

We must strengthen the primary care foundation while building an integrated health system—and that requires provinces and territories to finally work together

Medical professionals and critics alike laud the show for its realistic portrayal of an emergency room.

A lawsuit re-enactment shows how trying to protect nurses—or please patients—can cloud judgment and put doctors at risk.

Diet trends are as old as, well, the grapefruit diet of the 1930s. But in today’s social media world, endless online wellness hacks, fad diets and nutrition misinformation are spreading faster than ever.

Finasteride, a type 2 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor, is indicated for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and for androgenetic alopecia in men.