As someone living with complex chronic inflammatory illnesses, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and Myalgic ...

A few weeks ago, at a routine oncology appointment, his oxygen saturation was in the 70s. He had pneumonia. An ambulance took ...

Care in the Canadian context has always included something less measurable: time, attention and human connection. The ability of a clinician to listen, interpret nuance and respond with empathy is not ...

“Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.” — Nadia Hashimi We are ...

If we wanted to understand what it takes to win a Super Bowl, we definitely would be listening to what seven-time winner Tom Brady has to say. We also would listen to teams that lost. Their ...

Despite a history steeped in diabetes-related breakthroughs (the discovery of insulin and a track record of performing more insulin-producing cell transplants than any other country), Canada is at ...

We are a concerned group of women who live in Toronto and who have all used supervised consumption sites. Some of us are currently homeless and some of us are housed. Most of us currently use drugs.

Loneliness and social isolation are recognized as severe public health challenges in this age of fast-changing lifestyles, technology and information.

Canadian health care does not need another technology that simply changes the shape of administrative burden. It needs technology that gives clinicians and health-system professionals time back for ...

The problem is not that every wellness trend is false. Many are not. Some contain a real signal. Some help certain people in specific situations. Some are based on early science that may become more ...

A man diagnosed with metastatic cancer initially expressed interest in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Though the treating team determined he lacked capacity and was being sedated for pain ...

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 ...