Canada’s youth are part of the opioid crisis and need treatment Despite investment in harm-reduction initiatives, safer supply, and treatment for adult patients, the opioid overdose crisis in Canada continues. More than 18 people in Canada still die every day from...

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we can’t solve a crisis without offering first aid to where it starts.

1. Kipling, R. From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1889). Letter 37.

citing a primary sources based on a robot’s quick summary is like me trying to do electrical work. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain(1)

Protecting Canada’s youth from the risks of exposure to gambling advertising Before 2021, single-game sports betting was illegal in Canada; now, in 2025, advertisements for sports betting platforms punctuate screened competitive sports games without limits on their duration or...

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can we cut the sports betting ads out already? gambling addiction destroys lives.

Ikea sums up my core character flaw:

To eliminate cervical cancer in Canada, nationwide funding of self-sampling for human papillomavirus is needed [See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231682][1] Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable and is curable if detected early. In related research, Pataky and colleagues mode...

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Canadian cervical cancer screening rates for last year are down in young people, the group most at risk for it. we need free self-screening now.

data or it didn’t happen.

“24 hours or more”. . . and sent to a farm upstate?

First malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region.

1st #malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use

Bhargavi Rao tells @washingtonpost.com the development would help young babies & malnourished children who are outside of normal treatment guidance & have previously been excluded from trials.

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CMAJ editor Dr. Shannon Charlebois on Canada's need to strengthen support for tracking diseases Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis

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in which i coin the phrase “the vaccine people”.

Tackling communicable disease surveillance and misinformation in Canada [See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250641][1] A crisis of communicable diseases is unfolding in North America, just as Canada’s health systems’ responses are being hampered b...

My contribution to your doom-scroll quota.

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06 Dailymotion video by L3arnTV

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

grateful to have people doing the work you do.

patient-centred care.

6 infants born with congenital measles from unvaccinated mothers in Ontario since last fall | CBC News Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not ...

"In an editorial published Monday in the CMAJ, Dr. Catherine Varner argues pregnant people are "bearing the burden" of Canada's measles outbreak."
— CBC News

Read the full editorial here ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250820

just ordered my copy.

is opposed to the use of the term “nowadays” in academic literature.

She left a wonderful legacy in her strong daughter.

ooh i read a really good Snape erotica one.

just went to use a highlighter as lip balm. was i always bananas with exams?

just dug out my copy of Leviathan from the early aughts for a citation. arts undergrads in medicine: mostly an exercise in self-flagellation, but occasionally helpful on MSc essays.

Dear Harvard Referencing System,
You are actually not all that bad. Inferior and aesthetically displeasing, but I take back what I said before.
Love, s

A young woman with fever, rash, and systemic symptoms after returning from Argentina Seven days after returning from a trip to Argentina, a 21-year-old woman presented to her family physician with fever, myalgia, and a macular rash on both thighs. This constellation of symptoms raised...

Dengue in Canada. It’s a thing.

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I couldn’t take the trauma by the end of season three. Good for you for sticking it out.

The term “sexual harassment” wasn’t coined until 1975, turning what might have been perceived as a social norm into pathology. The power of naming.

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A wealth of free *certified* mainpro credits for CCFPs available here.

pass the gravol please.