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 ...

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 ...

Lying in a cold operating room surrounded by the health-care team, I watched trainees gather around to observe my surgery. Their presence was anticipated, given the central role hospitals play in ...

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

A new health trend rarely arrives quietly. It usually comes with a promise: better sleep, more energy, less inflammation, sharper focus, improved metabolism or a more “optimized” life. It sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Few issues in medicine are as ethically complex and important as medical assistance in dying, (MAiD). Reasonable people can disagree about where eligibility should begin and end, how at-risk ...