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  • Should we artificially promote the use of biosimilar drugs in Canada?

    There is much to debate in the question of whether or not biosimilars should be promoted as an alternative to biologic medicines.

  • Nipping it in the bud because old men cry

    As we all traverse this world of social media and the spread of hate based on race, religion and sexual orientation, it remains an open question whether Canada’s compromise of balancing the right to freedom of speech with other rights, will curtail hate crimes.

  • Solutions to the MD gender pay gap

    As a member of the Equity in Medicine team, I volunteered to discuss the gender pay gap in Canada for an online hour-long session on a weekday evening in early July. I thought the attendance in the summer would be around a dozen people if we were lucky. The response was incredible, enough to make me hope (faintly) that women physicians in this country may finally have had enough of being treated so unfairly when it comes to remuneration and angry enough to push hard for justified change.

  • University of Toronto launches Institute for Pandemics after donation

    The dean of a newly launched pandemic institute at the University of Toronto says the initiative will help bring together the school's vast resources to effectively research and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Institute for Pandemics will study the impact of the coronavirus as well as the ensuing recovery efforts, while also helping to prepare for future pandemics, Adalsteinn Brown said.

  • Does diet play a role in adult acne?

    Emerging evidence that diet may influence the incidence and severity of adult acne vulgaris

  • Feds should make data a priority, tie it to new health funding

    Yet again, the federal government looks like it is about to transfer tens of billions of dollars to the provinces with essentially no strings attached. We’ve seen this before. The 2004 First Ministers’ Health Accord transferred $40 billion to the provinces with homecare as one of the priorities. In the 2017 Health Accord, $11 billion was transferred with money earmarked for homecare and for mental health and addictions. We have no evidence of any significant progress in the provision of home care.

  • Ontario male physicians bill 15.6% more than female physicians

    Gap remains even when data adjusted for specialty and other factors

  • Mental health referrals peaked during pandemic

    Referrals for virtually all services slumped during the pandemic, but new data shows the opposite trend for mental health services
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