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Termination of pregnancies due to birth defects driving increase in stillbirth rates, study shows

Sharon Kirkey wrote 1 month ago: Canada’s stillbirth rate appears to be rising not because more fetuses are dying spontaneously but b … more →

Tags: National, News, Canada, Canadian Medical Association Journal, congenital disorder, Inuit, pn, Pregnancy, Public Health

Swedish House Mafia - Save The World (Alesso Remix)

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Tags: Progressive House, Swedish House Mafia, 128-bpm, Remix, Save The World (The Remixes), virgin uk, 6min, Alesso, 2011

Waiting time for TKR and THR in Canada

handtutorblog wrote 2 months ago: Staistics published in Canadian Medical Association Journal CMAJ and using statistics from the Canad … more →

Tags: Hand Tutor, Surgery, Knee Replacement, hip replacement, Canada, TKR, THR, Canadian Institute for Health Information, St. Michael's Hospital

Swallowing high-powered magnets a growing threat to children, doctors warn

Sharon Kirkey wrote 2 months ago: High-powered magnets in desktop toys pose a growing and lethal threat to children, Canadian doctors … more →

Tags: National, Toys, Public Health Agency of Canada, Hospital for Sick Children, pn, Canadian Medical Association Journal, MRI, Magnet, Industrial Goods and Services

Quebec’s aboriginals see high rate of stillbirths, study suggests 1 comment

Andrea Hill wrote 2 months ago: Quebec’s aboriginal women are having twice as many late-pregnancy stillbirths as the general populat … more →

Tags: Health 2, National, Women Health, aboriginal, Birth Defects, body weight, Childrens' Health, First Nations, INSPQ

New cervical cancer screening guideline says start Pap tests later, screen less often

Sharon Kirkey wrote 4 months ago: OTTAWA – Doctors should stop ordering yearly Pap tests for most women, and routine screening for cer … more →

Tags: Health 2, Women Health, National, Canadian Medical Association, Cancer, pn, Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMA, canadian cancer society

CMAJ reports correlation between depression and hospital stays in geriatric males

Atoms and Empty Space wrote 5 months ago: According to a new study published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal1, untreated depressio … more →

Tags: depression antidepressants, Medical Care, Geriatrics, geriatric male, Geriatric, Hospital stay, canadian journal, Case Study, Medication

Hospitals should demand all doctors, health care workers be vaccinated against flu, Canada's top medical journal says

Sharon Kirkey wrote 6 months ago: OTTAWA – Doctors who refuse to get a flu shot are increasing the risk of their patients dying from f … more →

Tags: National, Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMA, flu, Immunization, influenza vaccine, Ken Flegel, McGill University

Ensuring quality palliative care for all

gordongiddings wrote 7 months ago: A new article on end-of-life care was recently published in the CMAJ, talking about the need to crea … more →

Tags: Dr. Gordon Giddings, Dying in the Land of Enchantment, Canada, end of life, Palliative, Health Care, Support, Death and dying, Medicine

Canadians should support ban on spanking but not make it a criminal offence

SoapBox wrote 8 months ago: Re: Stop spanking defence, doctors urge, by Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press, Sept. 5. In an edi … more →

Tags: Letters

Twenty tips to help avoid medical errors; staying safe in health care settings

Pamela Fayerman wrote 9 months ago: There are an estimated 70,000 medical mistakes made by health professionals in Canada each year, mos … more →

Tags: Medicine Matters, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, BC Patient Safety and Quality Council, Canadian Adverse Events Study, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Health Care Provider, Health Care System, hospitals

Medical Journal Kills For-Profit Lab Debate

Ross Sutherland wrote 1 year ago: I was surprised when the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) asked me to write an analysis p … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, medical laboratories, For-profit delivery, canadian, Medical, Balance, Academic Integrity, Association, Journal

Bariatric weight loss surgery: a formerly fat B.C. doctor, on shedding 110 pounds

Pamela Fayerman wrote 1 year ago: While attending UBC medical school, Dr. Ben Williams weighed 320 pounds. Since having bariatric surg … more →

Tags: Medicine Matters, Bariatric Surgery, British Columbia New Democratic Party, Can. Medical Association Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dieting, Dr. Ben Williams, Dr. Nam Nguyen, Health risks of obesity

Female Feticide6 comments

uOttawa Students For Life wrote 1 year ago: From Aborting Women’s Rights: So prevalent is this trend that the delicate balance required to … more →

Tags: uosfl, Abortion, Women, Gendercide, Public Opinion, uottawa, club, female feticide, Rajendra Kale

Food intolerance blood tests have no place in the pharmacy26 comments

Scott wrote 1 year ago: Imagine your pharmacy features a blood pressure measurement device. It has never worked correctly. S … more →

Tags: Articles, pharmacy practice, Naturopathy, pharmacy ethics, Rexall, hemocode, food intolerance tests, yorktest, foodSCAN

Blog Nuggets: China tells Europe to take its carbon tax and blow it out a jet engine

Kelly McParland wrote 1 year ago: China, which lectured everyone else about their responsibility to curb greenhouse gas emissions at t … more →

Tags: Full Comment, Global Warming, climate change, Stephen Harper, Israel, middle east, Russia, Immigration, hamas

Canadian Legislature Wants to Ban Sex-Selection Abortions

mburatov wrote 1 year ago: Wesley Smith at his blog “Secondhand Smoke” has an excellent article on the Canadian Med … more →

Tags: Humanity of the unborn, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian Medical Association, Lifestyle Choices, vitro fertilization, Medical Association Journal

A temporary compromise: women's rights and sex-selective abortion6 comments

Alexis Beckett wrote 1 year ago: The early release of an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal stirred up the percola … more →

Tags: Politics, Canada, Abortion, abortion in canada, sex selective abortion, Asia, asian immigrants, Dr. Rajendra Kale, Canadian Medical Association Journal

BC health minister Mike de Jong: his first major interview

Pamela Fayerman wrote 1 year ago: After contesting the Liberal leadership and losing to Premier Christy Clark last spring, five-term B … more →

Tags: Medicine Matters, anesthesiologists, BC health minister Mike de Jong, BC Medical Association, BCMA, Canada Health Act, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Doug Cochrane, executive salaries


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