Blood tests for Alzheimer’s are here – but Canada isn’t ready - Healthy Debate

Blood‑based biomarkers offer a real opportunity to improve dementia care – but only if we redesign our systems to use them wisely.

Summer’s almost here. Are you still upset about changing to daylight saving time? - Healthy Debate

Spring and summer moves between daylight and standard time represents a compromise. It’s about health across the months, not just in the immediate moment of the change.

Shamed to death: How stigma, not science, is killing Canadians with lung cancer - Healthy Debate

Lung cancer screening should be available to everyone at risk, regardless of where they live or the source of their illness. 

From bombed refineries to empty fridges: A faraway war raises health concerns at home - Healthy...

Global crises may not stay global; they can become local. Canada must prepare for consequences to protect Canadians at home.

Hantavirus outbreak shows we haven’t learned the lesson of SARS-1 or COVID-19 - Healthy Debate

It’s happening again. Not a global pandemic but the minimizing of airborne precautions for transmission of a deadly respiratory virus.

From burden to blueprint: Clinicians and patients as co-architects of primary care's digital...

Clinicians and patients are not simply users to be consulted. They are indispensable partners – co-architects of a digital transformation that serves care, not the other way around.

People increasingly are turning to AI for health questions but should it be trusted? - Healthy...

The convenience of turning to AI or health information is appealing. But it raises an important question: how reliable are these answers when the topic is our health?

Protecting nursing students: The need for placement site guidelines in smaller clinics - Healthy...

Strengthening placement guidelines for clinical education could help anticipate shifts in placement availability by promoting clearer expectations and safeguards.

Beyond stereotypes: Family doctors’ pivotal role in detecting substance use disorders - Healthy...

Primary care clinics can be the best place for detection because of the stigma patients feel when walking into a specialized clinic.

It’s time to act: Canada needs standardized genetic testing for breast cancer care - Healthy Debate

Every patient deserves to know if their breast cancer is hereditary, if their treatment could be more precise and if their loved ones are at risk.

The fabric of care: It is nurses who hold our health system together - Healthy Debate

If Canada hopes to strengthen its health-care system, we must recognize and support the profession that sustains it every day.

Digital tools promise better care. Are they delivering on the Quintuple Aim? - Healthy Debate

If primary care is increasingly digital, are these tools helping us move toward better patient experience, health outcomes, lower costs, improved clinician well-being and greater equity?

Expanding dementia prevention and care beyond randomized control trials - Healthy Debate

In dementia care relying only on randomized controlled trials can leave out a large amount of strong research that reflects real-world complexity.

When digital tools reshape primary care: What happens to the 4Cs? - Healthy Debate

The question is not whether digital systems can do more. It’s whether we are designing and governing them to protect the core functions of primary care.

HCWs have died and been disabled. Laws should have prevented this - Healthy Debate

We must learn the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent thousands from acquiring a preventable workplace-acquired illness.

Reclaiming the joy of cooking for people living with chronic conditions - Healthy Debate

The millions of Canadians living with diabetes deserve better than a lifetime of restriction and shame.

Too frail but not yet palliative: Ontario’s opportunity to lead in home care for older adults -...

If Ontario wants to help more people age at home, it should apply lessons from home palliative care to frailty right now.

Assisted dying is changing medicine more than we realize - Healthy Debate

If Canada continues expanding assisted dying, it must answer hard questions. Are we expanding access to death faster than access to care?

The paradox of progress: How medical advancements are expanding the time we spend unwell - Healthy...