by CMAJ News | Dec 6, 2019 | archive, Lauren Vogel, recaps
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, homepage, 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, homepage, 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...
by CMAJ News | Nov 29, 2019 | archive, Lauren Vogel, recaps
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | November 29, 2019 Canadians waited an average 3.9 hours for emergency care in 2018-2019, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Quebec participated in the study for the first time and reported the longest emergency room wait...
by CMAJ News | Nov 28, 2019 | archive, homepage, Wendy Glauser
Why the future of health care is salaried Wendy Glauser | Toronto, ON | November 28, 2019 How doctors are paid matters as much as how much, an expert panel warns. Fee-for-service doesn’t work well for an aging population with chronic conditions, according to an expert...
by CMAJ News | Nov 27, 2019 | archive, Greg Basky, homepage
Too few doctors prepared to provide opioid addiction treatment in the north Greg Basky | Saskatoon, SK | November 27, 2019 Only a handful of doctors in Saskatchewan’s north prescribe opioid agonist therapies like methadone. Saskatchewan needs to recruit more northern...
