Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health problem in Canadian Inuit communities. In 2016, Canadian Inuit had an incidence rate…
Greece, 10 Years Into Economic Crisis, Counts the Cost to Mental Health
Depression and suicide rates rose alarmingly during the debt crisis as the country cut wages and health services and increased…
The State of Ambulatory Undergraduate Internal Medicine Medical Education: Results of the 2016 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Annual Survey
Ambulatory care is qualitatively different and valuable to the health system. Given the shifts in health care that prioritize ambulatory…
Body Mass Index, Intensive Blood Pressure Management, and Cardiovascular Events in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)
It is unclear whether intensive blood pressure management is well-tolerated and affects risk uniformly across the body mass index (BMI)…
Protecting those on the frontline from Ebola
Online training has increased the knowledge of health care workers about effective prevention of Ebola up to 19 percent and…
Walking for health benefits just got easier to track
In an ongoing study exploring walking for health across the adult lifespan, researchers found that walking cadence is a reliable…
Body Mass Index, Intensive Blood Pressure Management, and Cardiovascular Events in the SPRINT Trial
It is unclear whether intensive blood pressure management is well-tolerated and affects risk uniformly across the body mass index (BMI)…
Clinician’s Guide to the Updated ABCs of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Review Part 2
Efforts to better control risk factors for cardiovascular disease and prevent the development of subsequent cardiovascular events are crucial to…
A New Gender Neutral Honorific: “RP”
Healthcare providers are increasingly aware of the challenges that transgender patients face in accessing quality and compassionate healthcare. 1 Physicians…
Creating a culture of micro-affirmations to overcome gender-based micro-inequities in academic medicine
A woman physician meets with the department chairperson and colleagues to discuss her project ideas. The group agrees that they…