Why are some hospitals more likely to perform C-sections?
Julia Belluz looks at the challenges of ’unwarranted variation’
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Julia Belluz
Julia Belluz is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist covering health care and policy. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she writes the blog/column ‘Science-ish’ for Maclean’s and the Medical Post about the evidence behind the health headlines.
Great minds think alike to fund brain research
Julia Belluz looks at how Canada competes when it comes to neuroscience
Should the state pay for in vitro fertilization?
Fertility politics: An evidence-free zone?
Big Data: Bad science on steroids?
Experts struggle with how to tell the signal from the noise
Tamiflu takedown
Researchers ask Canada’s public health agency the tough questions, and the answers aren’t very reassuring
Podcast: What’s the evidence behind the anti-fluoridation outrage?
Julia Belluz breaks down the debate
Talking with Ben Goldacre about his new book, ’Bad Pharma’
On why real science matters, the problem with missing data and why alternative medicine is more interesting than evil
How did Jenny McCarthy earn a platform at a cancer fundraiser?
The anti-vaccine crusader has just been dropped from an Ottawa fundraiser. Science-ish asks why she was there in the first place
Fat vs. sugar in battle of the bulge
Should we cut sugar from our diets the way we banished fat decades ago?
Is this flu season bad? No one knows
Why there is no good measure of influenza virus infections, deaths, and similar respiratory illnesses