Canada Healthwatch: Weekly

Health promises walked back in run-up to Carney’s first budget

The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for health projects, and won’t fund new team-based care programs.A policy-heavy week.

The doctors aren’t ok

Catching up this week on some stories you might’ve missed. Canada’s health system is under strain (we know this), and the people inside it are burning out.

U.S.-owned health app moves to limit Canadians’ legal rights

Who controls our health? This week’s stories follow the power struggles unfolding over our data, our care, and the truth itself.

Canada breaks with U.S. on med-school standards

In response to Trump’s DEI bans, Canada’s medical schools will now fall entirely under Canadian oversight.Until recently, accreditation had been done jointly with the U.S., but with America veering into new territory Canadian schools are now held to Canadian standards.

Why I’m never eating raw oysters again

I like oysters. They’re delicious, squishy animals that live in hollow rocks.We don't eat other raw shellfish, but oysters are an odd exception. While raw milk has become stigmatized (even politicized), raw oysters persist in elite food culture, their romanticization seemingly blunting our collective risk-assessment.

Plan for a world of post-COVID immune effects

Something different today.This week, an almost year-long project came to fruition: The BMJ published my deep-dive on how COVID affects the immune system, after recovery.I reviewed the literature, interviewed immunology experts worldwide, and cleared two rounds of peer review (and at least a few rounds of plain old editorial review).The...

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