Sex differences in outcomes after acute coronary syndrome vary with age: a New Zealand national study.

Aims: This study investigated age-specific sex differences in short- and long-term clinical outcomes following hospitalization for a first-time acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in New Zealand (NZ).

Methods And Results: Using linked national health datasets, people admitted to hospital for a first-time ACS between January 2010 and December 2016 were included. Analyses were stratified by sex and 10-year age groups.

Case report: mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related acute pericarditis with evolution to myopericarditis.

Background: Both acute pericarditis and myocarditis have been reported as rare complications following vaccination with the Pfizer-Biotech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Case Summary: An 18-year-old man presented with clinical and electrocardiographic changes of acute pericarditis 2 days after receiving the second dose of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine. His electrocardiogram also showed an incomplete right bundle branch block.

Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020.

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level.