How can excess body fat cause cancer?
How can fat cause cancer? Paul Taylor talks to experts about what is known about the links between fat and cancers such as ovarian, esophageal and colorectal cancer.
Seema Marwaha
We need more resources for palliative care patients at home
Palliative home care: With limited hospital beds for palliative patients, we need resources for people to receive care at home in the weeks before they die.
After Pride Month, a reflection on health care’s progress
LGBTQ rights and health care: After Pride Month, a reflection on progress made, and yet to be made, in health care with respect to LGBTQ right
When researching and reporting on sex-selective abortions in Indo-Canadian communities, context is key
Sex-selective abortions in Indo-Canadian communities: Too little research and media coverage captures the critical context around this complex issue
What it’s really like to die at home in Ontario
Dying at home: Three-quarters of Canadians want to die at home, but the reality of providing palliative care to loved ones at home often make it impossible
Let’s listen to patients’ hearts, even if we don’t have to
Annual physical exams: Regular check-ups are becoming obsolete. But there are important benefits in routine physical exams.
Urgent call on clinicians: Prescribe alternatives to poisoned drug supply
Safer supply opioids: Clinicians must begin prescribing pharmaceutical opioids so fewer people overdose and die as a result of the poisoned street supply.
Medical science can save younger and younger babies. Medical culture is changing as a result.
Babies born 23 weeks preterm: More “micro preemies” are being resuscitated in Canada. Medical advance is responsible, but also a shift if medical culture.
Is it safe to take herbal therapies while undergoing conventional cancer treatment?
Cancer treatment and herbal therapies: Is it safe to take alternative herbal therapies while undergoing conventional treatments like chemotherapy?
What are medical schools doing to admit more poor students?
Low SES medical students: For years we’ve known that low-income students are underrepresented in medical school. What are we doing about it?
When CPR causes harm and suffering
CPR and terminal illness: Most patients with terminal illness who receive CPR are never discharged from hospital. Many need help breathing and eating.
Kanae
Spiritual care practitioner, Kanae: How can I be with people during the hardest times and make it just a little more meaningful for them?
Patients need answers. Doctors don’t always have them.
Uncertainty in medicine: What it’s like when doctors can’t provide the diagnoses and treatments patients desperately need.
Blood flow restriction: A potential new approach to rehabilitation?
Blood flow restriction: Athletes use it to rebuild muscle with tourniquets and light weights. Might it work for post-operative and geriatric patients?
Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy is built on the idea that people deserve to be poor
Ontario cuts to public health and social programs are built around the idea that we get what we deserve in life. We don’t.
Twenty years of patient surveys: What’s not working and how to improve the process
Patient experience surveys: Patients have been asked to fill out surveys for the past 20 years, but what happens with the results?
Lung cancer is no longer a death sentence. Why aren’t we saving more lives?
Lung cancer treatment is improving and lung cancer is no longer a death sentence. We must invest more in research and screening in order to save more lives.
Why should people age 65 and older get the pneumonia vaccine?
Pneumonia vaccine: The Public Health Agency of Canada urges everyone over 65 to get a pneumonia shot. Experts say the seriousness of pneumonia is underestimated.
Public health in Ontario: What it does, and what might change
Public health in Ontario: In light of the province’s new budget, we took a close look at what public health does in Ontario and what changes may be coming
“I’m sorry that you have no privacy, that you won’t be able to sleep”
Hallway medicine: Treating patients in corridors without any semblance of privacy has become the norm. As a doctor, this makes me feel defeated and angry.