by CMAJ News | Dec 11, 2019 | Archive, Greg Basky, Latest
Telephone triage hotlines: Effective screen or open gate? Greg Basky | Saskatoon, SK | December 11, 2019 A Saskatchewan study shows the province’s teletriage service sent only one in five callers to emergency departments in Saskatoon. It may seem like teletriage...
by CMAJ News | Dec 6, 2019 | Archive, Health News Recaps, Lauren Vogel
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | December 6, 2019 Health Canada is testing samples of the diabetes drug metformin for a possible cancer-causing impurity after some products in Singapore were found to contain N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) above acceptable limits. Health Canada...
by CMAJ News | Dec 5, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Wendy Glauser
AI in health care: improving outcomes or threatening equity? Wendy Glauser | Toronto, ON | December 5, 2019 Embracing artificial intelligence may deepen discrimination in health care, experts warn. Scientists warn that the unexamined use of artificial intelligence...
by CMAJ News | Dec 4, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Sarah Boesveld
What’s driving the gender pay gap in medicine? Sarah Boesveld | Toronto, ON | December 4, 2019 From the United Kingdom to the United States, female physicians across the Western world are making less than men in the same roles. More women than ever are qualifying as...
