Cultural Competence

Fighting for attention: Why continuing education for healthcare professionals has to be as interesting as the latest Netflix series
Ajit Johal, clinical director of Immunize.io Health Association, talks about his non-profit's efforts to create highly engaging, digestible educational materials for situations where healthcare professionals need to grasp swiftly developing information.
Cancer society, gynecologists hope for national shift in cervical cancer screening
On Tuesday, the B.C. government announced that testing for human papilloma virus, or HPV, will gradually replace Pap tests as the standard screening. HPV causes cervical cancer.

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in healthcare

While there is a long history of doctor-poets—one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician—few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.
Resistance (exercise) is far from futile: The unheralded benefits of weight training

For too long, though, one way of keeping fit, aerobic exercise, has been perceived as superior to the other, resistance training, for promoting health when, in fact, they are equally valuable.
Actually, adjusting medication dosage is very much within my scope of practice

Contrary to how a local physician admonished me, adjusting medication dosage is absolutely within my scope of practice. Besides, I answer to the patient (who is at the centre of all I do) and to the College of Pharmacists, not to physicians.
Reduce the risks of nosocomial pneumonia just by brushing your teeth?

Study results highlight the importance of implementing an oral health routine that includes toothbrushing for hospitalized patients.
Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk by maintaining brain plasticity—but the time to act is now

We know that making lifestyle changes is hard. Ask anyone who has tried to keep their New Year’s resolution to visit the gym three times a week.
Pope Francis calls for a universal ban on surrogacy. He says it exploits mother and child

Saying a child is a gift and ‘never the basis of a commercial contract,’ he called for a global ban on surrogacy ‘to prohibit this practice universally.’
Feds must decide whether ‘all Canadians’ have right to assisted dying: senator

A joint committee of parliamentarians was asked last fall to study the question whether the healthcare system was ready and the Liberals now face the choice of whether to go ahead with broadening the rules.
In sickness and in health: High BP often correlates between spouses

A study of thousands of couples shows that high blood pressure often affects both partners—suggesting maintenance of issues like hypertension should take a family, rather than individual, approach.

Fighting for attention: Why continuing education for healthcare professionals has to be as interesting as the latest Netflix series

Cancer society, gynecologists hope for national shift in cervical cancer screening

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in healthcare

Resistance (exercise) is far from futile: The unheralded benefits of weight training

Actually, adjusting medication dosage is very much within my scope of practice

Reduce the risks of nosocomial pneumonia just by brushing your teeth?

Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk by maintaining brain plasticity—but the time to act is now

Pope Francis calls for a universal ban on surrogacy. He says it exploits mother and child

Feds must decide whether ‘all Canadians’ have right to assisted dying: senator

In sickness and in health: High BP often correlates between spouses