ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 6/5/2023

  We’ve reached a watershed moment where we’re not going back to the way things were: CMA president

  Dr. Alika Lafontaine talks about pan-Canadian licensure and improving the working environment for doctors.
• 6/5/2023

  Pandemic babies’ developmental milestones: Not as bad as we feared, but not as good as before

  Scientists and physicians raised concerns early in the pandemic, pointing out that increased parental stress, COVID infections, reduced interactions with other babies and adults and changes to health care could affect child development.
• 6/5/2023

  Merck sues U.S. government, calling plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices ‘extortion’

  Merck said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the program does not involve genuine negotiation.
• 6/5/2023

  B.C. officials push back against safe supply critics and their ‘polarizing rhetoric’

  ‘Safe supply is an alternative to the poison that is available on the street,’ said B.C.’s representative for children and youth, Jennifer Charlesworth.
• 6/5/2023

  $154M put up to improve healthcare services across Manitoba's north

  Anticipated to cost about $39 million, the province said the new clinic will replace two aging, undersized sites currently in use.
• 6/5/2023

  Whither NACI: What’s driving the committee’s ongoing decisions on COVID?

  NACI has had a tough job during COVID-19. But has it done a good job? And what could it being doing better to help tackle COVID in this new phase of the pandemic?
• 6/5/2023

  At BC Cancer, doctors are afraid to speak out, while patients wait and wait and wait

  So, what’s the plan to correct this sorry state of affairs?
• 6/4/2023

  ‘Blue balls’: There’s no evidence they’re harmful, and they shouldn’t be used to pressure partners into sex

  Although no one knows how the pain of blue balls develops, most implicate the slowed drainage of blood from the testicles in the absence of orgasm during sexual arousal.
• 6/4/2023

  The story’s end

  This bonus chapter from 'These Vital Signs' by nephrologist and writer Dr. Sayed Tabatabai holds a deeply personal story about his grandmother.
• 6/4/2023

  What to know about the case of the missing Missouri ER doctor found dead in Arkansas

  A doctor in the Missouri Ozarks went missing for over a week until his body was found in an Arkansas lake. But the case remains shrouded in mystery as investigators have released few details to his family or the public.