Canada needs a broader approach to substance use health, emphasizing compassionate care, reducing stigma, prevention, and personalized support for everyone.
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Canada Can Win the Race for Clinical Trials – If We Keep up Our Momentum
Collaboration across provinces, industry, and research institutions is helping Canada rebuild its competitiveness in global clinical trials.
Collaboration across provinces, industry, and research institutions is helping Canada rebuild its competitiveness in global clinical trials.
Looksmaxxing: A ‘Perfect Storm That Can Result in Lots of Mental and Physical Health Issues’
Experts warn that looksmaxxing trends expose young men to dangerous beauty standards, eating disorders, body image struggles, and health risks.
Experts warn that looksmaxxing trends expose young men to dangerous beauty standards, eating disorders, body image struggles, and health risks.
Canada Regulates Health-Product Claims. But What Does ‘Science-Backed’ Actually Mean?
Phrases like “science-backed” can sound reassuring, but consumers deserve to see what kind of evidence actually stands behind health-product claims.
Phrases like “science-backed” can sound reassuring, but consumers deserve to see what kind of evidence actually stands behind health-product claims.
We Need Local Solutions to Ease Hospital Overcrowding
Local hospital leaders can reduce overcrowding by improving patient flow, addressing specialist bottlenecks, and developing more efficient health care systems.
Local hospital leaders can reduce overcrowding by improving patient flow, addressing specialist bottlenecks, and developing more efficient health care systems.
You Think You Know About Drugs in the Netherlands. You’re Probably Wrong
The Netherlands challenges drug policy stereotypes by combining strict regulations, supervised treatment, harm reduction, and public safety to prevent overdoses.
The Netherlands challenges drug policy stereotypes by combining strict regulations, supervised treatment, harm reduction, and public safety to prevent overdoses.
Beyond Pilot Projects: Why Canada Needs Care Pathways for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
An opinion piece argues Canada should move beyond pilot projects toward coordinated care pathways for people with complex inflammatory diseases.
An opinion piece argues Canada should move beyond pilot projects toward coordinated care pathways for people with complex inflammatory diseases.
How to Spend Money and Make Emergency Room Overcrowding Worse
An opinion piece argues that expanding emergency departments will not fix overcrowding without redesigning how patients move through hospitals.
An opinion piece argues that expanding emergency departments will not fix overcrowding without redesigning how patients move through hospitals.
Canada Has No Shortage of Ideas for the Overdose Crisis. It Has a Follow-Through Problem
Canada's overdose crisis highlights the need for consistent funding, better evaluation and sustained access to effective addiction treatment and harm reduction services.
Canada’s overdose crisis highlights the need for consistent funding, better evaluation and sustained access to effective addiction treatment and harm reduction services.
RSV Protection Has Changed. Our Conversations Need to Change, Too
New RSV prevention options can protect infants from severe illness, but families need earlier guidance and clearer access to care.
New RSV prevention options can protect infants from severe illness, but families need earlier guidance and clearer access to care.
Who Will Protect Workers From AI Algorithms?
An opinion piece argues Canadian regulators and lawmakers should treat AI-driven workplace surveillance and algorithmic management as psychosocial hazards before harm accumulates.
An opinion piece argues Canadian regulators and lawmakers should treat AI-driven workplace surveillance and algorithmic management as psychosocial hazards before harm accumulates.
Canada Is Losing the Race for Clinical Trials – and Patients Are Paying the Price
An opinion piece argues that fragmented approvals, slow recruitment and delayed drug access are weakening Canada’s clinical trial sector and limiting patient opportunities.
An opinion piece argues that fragmented approvals, slow recruitment and delayed drug access are weakening Canada’s clinical trial sector and limiting patient opportunities.
Does the Mediterranean Diet Have to Be Mediterranean? Rethinking Heart-Healthy Eating in Multicultural Canada
An opinion piece argues that heart-healthy eating should adapt Mediterranean diet principles to diverse cultural food traditions, budgets and everyday meals.
An opinion piece argues that heart-healthy eating should adapt Mediterranean diet principles to diverse cultural food traditions, budgets and everyday meals.
Could We Vaccinate Against Colorectal Cancer? Lynch Syndrome May Show Us How
Researchers are testing cancer vaccines that could help prevent colorectal cancer in people with Lynch syndrome, but the approach remains experimental.
Researchers are testing cancer vaccines that could help prevent colorectal cancer in people with Lynch syndrome, but the approach remains experimental.
Air Quality, Anxiety and Evidence: Rethinking the CN Milton Logistics Hub
An opinion piece argues for transparent air-quality monitoring around Ontario’s CN Milton Logistics Hub to address health concerns with reliable evidence.
An opinion piece argues for transparent air-quality monitoring around Ontario’s CN Milton Logistics Hub to address health concerns with reliable evidence.
The Diagnosis Is Not the Conversation
A psychiatrist explains why delivering a diagnosis requires more than accuracy, emphasizing empathy, uncertainty, hope, and meaningful patient communication.
A psychiatrist explains why delivering a diagnosis requires more than accuracy, emphasizing empathy, uncertainty, hope, and meaningful patient communication.