ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 4/27/2023

  I've got a long list of MDs who've made my life better

  From fellow parents to the doctor who helped my wife and I become parents, the doctors in my life are making it better up and down the line.
• 4/27/2023

  Ontario hospital nurses awarded additional pay after Bill 124 struck down

  The 2019 law, known as Bill 124, capped wage increases for the nurses and other public sector workers at 1% a year for three years.
• 4/27/2023

  QUIZ: All about atrial fibrillation

  Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be diagnosed and managed effectively in primary care, according to authors of the 2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Heart Rhythm Society guidelines on the condition. See how much you know!
• 4/27/2023

  Dutch court bans sperm donor who fathered at least 550

  A judge at The Hague District Court ordered the halt in an injunction brought by the mother of a child conceived with the donor’s sperm and a foundation representing other parents.
• 4/27/2023

  Nova Scotia mom wants policy change for organ, tissue donors after gay son's death

  Even though his organs were too damaged to donate, a young Nova Scotia man with rare cancer sought to donate his tissues. But his ‘homosexual status’ on his medical records categorized him as a ‘high-risk’ donor.
• 4/27/2023

  Acetaminophen overdose is a leading cause of liver injury, but it is largely preventable

  Larissa was a 21-year-old Canadian college student recovering from COVID-19 when she died from complications related to an accidental overdose of acetaminophen, a medication in probably every drug store and most medicine cabinets in the country.
• 4/26/2023

  Health minister denies interfering in arm's length drug price agency before committee

  NDP health critic Don Davies is accusing the minister of halting the implementation of a new rule intended to lower the cost of drugs at the behest of drug companies that have resisted the change.
• 4/26/2023

  Whooping cough cases increase in southern Alberta outbreak

  An outbreak was declared Jan. 26, but AHS says the number of cases has increased by 120 over the last week.
• 4/26/2023

  Powerful new obesity drug poised to upend weight loss care

  As a growing number of overweight Americans clamor for Ozempic and Wegovy—drugs touted by celebrities and on TikTok to pare pounds—an even more powerful obesity medicine is poised to upend treatment.
• 4/26/2023

  First pill for fecal transplants wins U.S. FDA approval

  The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help patients.