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André Picard

André Picard

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Overdose deaths are falling across North America. But why?

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When it comes to funding for novel drugs and devices, waiting for a government decision is the most painful part

25.03.2025 10

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Transit systems shouldn’t operate as shelters for the unhoused and mentally ill

17.03.2025 10

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Hindsight is 2020: Did Canada get the early response to the COVID-19 pandemic right?

10.03.2025 10

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From Ontario to Texas, every measles infection is a preventable tragedy

04.03.2025 3

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If Canada is tearing down interprovincial barriers, let’s start with health care

25.02.2025 10

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Canada needs a plan to help struggling caregivers

18.02.2025 10

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The first War on Drugs was a complete failure – a fact Donald Trump seems willing to ignore

11.02.2025 9

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The Dutch and Danes have much to teach Canada about better health care

06.02.2025 10

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International med school graduates are an untapped resource, as well as a complex challenge

28.01.2025 10

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Beyond BMI: A new, nuanced way of measuring obesity

22.01.2025 10

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Does the Canada Health Act require reinterpretation, or a more fundamental rethink?

14.01.2025 10

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The casual violence inflicted by car culture

It’s estimated that 25 to 50 per cent of wars are related to access to oil – and motor vehicles guzzle up about half of the consumption of the...

07.01.2025 9

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Jimmy Carter’s efforts against neglected diseases embodied public health at its finest

In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, children collect drinking water from a pond using filters provided to them by The Carter Center's guinea worm...

30.12.2024 3

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It’s more important than ever that health information systems speak to each other better

Physicians spend at least two additional hours daily looking for patient info that should be easily accessible in EMRs. Canada Health Infoway...

17.12.2024 10

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Is photo radar a cash cow or a lifesaver?

Alberta transportation minister Devin Dreeshen is defending himself against accusations that a move to ban photo radar enforcement on provincial...

12.12.2024 8

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Are we sleepwalking toward another pandemic?

It’s like a slow burn that threatens to explode info flames at any moment. The bad news about bird flu keeps trickling out gradually while we...

03.12.2024 5

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Scurvy is back – and telling people to eat more oranges isn’t the answer

“Troubling resurgence of scurvy” is not a headline many people had on their 2024 bingo card. After all, hypovitaminosis C, as scurvy is formally...

26.11.2024 20

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RFK Jr.: Is an unhinged health secretary the right prescription for an angry nation?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at a Trump campaign event in Walker, Mich., on Sept. 27. Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press “I’m going to let him go...

18.11.2024 4

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Should doctors educated and trained in Quebec be forced to practise in Quebec?

Doctors and technicians operate at at Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, on July 26, 2023. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press “We’re short of doctors....

12.11.2024 4

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The courts are the worst place to address complex MAID cases

Here we go again. A B.C. judge blocked the medically assisted death of a 53-year-old Alberta woman after her common-law spouse alleged that MAID...

05.11.2024 3

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Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

Back in 1998, British Columbia became the first province to sue tobacco companies in an attempt to recoup some of the costs of treating smoking-...

29.10.2024 3

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With a dire shortage of family docs, should we reassign GPs from healthy people to the more needy?

There are 2.1 million Quebeckers (and 6.5 million Canadians) who don’t have a family doctor. So what if, in the name of equity, we took away...

22.10.2024 4

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Is there a conspiracy to kill medicare?

In health circles there is a popular theory circulating that goes something like this: Governments are letting the medicare system collapse to pave...

15.10.2024 6

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Promoting involuntary treatment of drug users is good populist politics, but is it good health care?

Should people with substance use disorder and severe mental illness be forced to undergo involuntary treatment? In the current provincial election...

01.10.2024 3

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Has bureaucracy taken the human touch out of health care?

A dying man was alone. No family; his only companion a cat. Home-care workers cared for the man’s every physical need – feeding, toileting,...

24.09.2024 10

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A century of ‘feminization’ has made medicine better for all Canadians, but it could be better still

When Dr. Shelley Ross graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta in 1974, there were only 20 women in the class of 120. Back then,...

20.09.2024 10

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Canada’s physicians demonstrate the right way to begin reconciliation

Elder Martha Peet during a moment of silence as the Canadian Medical Association held a ceremony at the Victoria Conference Centre in B.C., on...

19.09.2024 3

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Canada’s school food program is taking shape, slowly

Ottawa says a national school program should be accessible, in that 'children and youth can participate in school food programs without stigma or...

10.09.2024 5

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Which is worse: Infectious diseases or the denial they breed?

Gaza, a territory beset by war, has just reported its first case of polio in 25 years, and now there is a scramble to try and vaccinate 640,000...

03.09.2024 5

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Opposing beer and wine in corner stores isn’t a public health priority

Beer cans are stacked as props in front a display of milk at a press availability attended by Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a convenience store in...

26.08.2024 3

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Supervised drug consumption sites may have earned political and public wrath, but they are more helpful than harmful

The Ontario government is essentially turning its back on harm reduction measures and going all-in on addiction recovery. Closing supervised...

22.08.2024 20

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Tackling homelessness and drug addiction should not leave citizens feeling disenfranchised

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives at a news conference in Montreal on July 12. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press In La...

20.08.2024 6

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The mpox outbreak is a public-health emergency, but is it the next pandemic?

A family nurse practitioner prepares a syringe with the mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New...

16.08.2024 3

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Canada’s seat-of-the-pants response to disaster management isn’t working

From the left, Minister of Emergency Preparedness Harjit Sajjan, Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland, MLA Shane Getson, Premier Danielle Smith, Minister...

13.08.2024 10

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The world is making steady progress tackling HIV-AIDS – but challenges remain

In health care, we tend to spend a lot more time bemoaning failures than pondering successes. We too often lose sight of the fact that, while...

06.08.2024 10

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The conversation we really need about aging doesn’t involve U.S. presidential candidates

Thanks to the U.S. presidential election campaign, we seem intensely preoccupied by the age and cognitive state of two privileged old men. Joe...

24.07.2024 2

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