The “dog days of summer” offer Canadians time to disconnect from a harried life and an opportunity to reflect before reacting ...
In 2017, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada launched Competence by Design, the most consequential reform of Canadian residency training in a generation. The premise was simple: we ...
While economic uncertainty amidst yo-yoing threats from the United States overshadows all other issues in the coming election, Canadian health-care leaders will be listening closely to what our ...
In Canada, health data is siloed. Records from family doctors, hospitals, labs and specialists don’t always connect. Systems ...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, one of the most influential public health documents ever written. Adopted by delegates from 38 countries at the World ...
The word “cancer” strikes a particular kind of fear in people’s hearts and creates a thriving market for cancer scams. If you search “cancer treatments” on Facebook (one of the first prompts that ...
Canadian provinces have supercharged their efforts to recruit U.S. health-care workers, taking advantage of the political tumult down south. The B.C. government is selling West Coast providers on ...
One of my clients waited 18 months for gynecological surgery that was postponed three times. Each time, she cleared her calendar, rearranged her work schedule, and tried to stay hopeful – only to be ...
Last September, in a quiet Swiss forest at the edge of the German border, an anonymous 64-year-old American woman climbed into Sarco, the world’s first suicide pod, pressed a button to release ...
John, a 36-year-old patient with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), described his steady, invisible decline in function – known as “smouldering MS” – in a 2024 MS Brain Health international report and explained ...
Siobhan Deshauer is a fourth-year resident specializing in rheumatology at McMaster University. She also makes videos about health care under the social-media handle ViolinMD. Her channel now has over ...