Want to get healthy? Vigorous exercise alone won’t cut it.Canada’s Food Guide tells us how to eat. A new guide tells us how to move.
A new ’cure’ for MS? Not so fast.The stem cell treatment for MS greeted as a "cure" is a breakthrough for five per cent of people with MS. What about the other 95 per cent?
A CMA doctor on the burdens and ethics of assisted deathA Q&A with Dr. Jeff Blackmer, vice-president of medical professionalism at the Canadian Medical Association, about assisted death’s burden on physicians
While we still can: The case for advance directivesA proposed law on assisted death will not allow patients to choose death while they remain able. Should it?
PTSD and the loneliness of coming homeAuthor Sebastian Junger asks what if PTSD is located not in the trauma of combat, but in the transition back to modern life?
Assisted death is the new pro-choiceWhen does life—and a doctor’s duty—begin and end? Assisted dying is dredging up the big questions of the abortion debate, for better or worse.
Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarianAndrew Smith: ’Animals eat plants. What’s not so clear is that plants also eat animals’
At ground zero of assisted deathNino Sekopet, an extraordinary end-of-life counsellor, on the questions he most often faces
Grieving Canadian moms to UN: ’Tough love’ doesn’t work for drugsAn underrepresented voice in drug policy go to the UN: mothers with an all-too-personal understanding of the cost of drug abuse
There’s an app for that medical issue. Should you use it?Health apps are hailed for revolutionizing medicine. Just one little problem: Some of them are wildly incorrect.