Healthcare

A proposal to let Massachusetts prisoners donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on inmates desperate for freedom.

A statement from the Ehattesaht First Nation says six young people have died from drug overdoses in the small village over the past few months.

A booster shot during pregnancy bolstered protection against the Omicron variant in particular, said the study authors from the Canadian Immunization Research Network.

The organization says that about 15% of all donors in the past year had received MAID, adding that the vast majority of them—about 85%—had been diagnosed with neurodegenerative or neurological disease.

As knowledge keeps changing, Dr. Gary Kinney questions whether our certainty does too.

Can you find the lie hidden among the truths?

A colleague being attacked on social media. Dr. Jabir Jassam wonders if there is not more we can do to defend ourselves?

Amid a crumbling healthcare system and rising transphobia, trans and non-binary people in Ontario are facing a new challenge: reduced access to gender-affirming care.