Author: CMAJ

Jun 27 2014

Primary Care

Reflections on building primary care research capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Felicity Goodyear-Smith is a Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand   I have just returned from South Africa,...

Jun 26 2014

Editors' Blog

The World Cup, injury, arthritis and treatment

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Its not just the football. Sports docs watch the World Cup medical stories with great interest—which players are injured, what happened and how they are managed. Luis Suárez, suddenly infamous,...

Jun 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Cycling, cancer, doping, and danger

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The photograph in the Globe and Mail was impressive. Thousands on the Ride...

Jun 13 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons for doctors on patient involvement in research from day 2 of the Ca-PRI Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is an associate editor on CMAJ, currently at the The Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) conference in Winnipeg Derek Stewart, a patient advocate, gently gave...

Jun 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Cancer in Primary Care—day 1 of the Ca-PRI Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is an associate editor on CMAJ, currently at the The Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) conference in Winnipeg   Cancer is now a major primary...

Jun 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Voluntourism – call it a spade and use it carefully

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Dr Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to a great workshop, organized by the CMA’s Public Health division, aimed at...

Jun 05 2014

Editors' Blog

Early warning: a body scan may cost you your life

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor, clinical, at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open In the newspaper, today, I found a bright gold flyer with a dire warning—and some hope. The...

Jun 04 2014

Reflections

By the look on his face….

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Pat Harrold is a family physician working in County Tipperary, Ireland It had been the worst snap of cold weather for many years. An elderly farmer had gone missing and...

Jun 03 2014

Editors' Blog

Our relationship status with alcohol: It’s complicated

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Erin Russell is an Assistant Editor working on CMAJ and CMAJ Open Alcohol is an addictive substance, a cancer risk factor, and a teratogen – yet you can buy a glass...

Jun 02 2014

Editors' Blog

Fat people eat more ice cream

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Fat people eat more ice cream. That’s not an evidence based, statistically validated...

Jun 02 2014

Medical Dispatches

Fukushima three years on

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Ryuki Kassai is a founding professor and chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan One day in November 2013, a 14-year-old girl...

May 27 2014

Editors' Blog

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: now a treatable disease and other highlights from the 2014 American Thoracic Society Annual Conference

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in San Diego, U.S.A. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic progressive disease in which the normal connective tissue of the lungs (the interstitium) is...

May 26 2014

Editors' Blog

Patients’ experience of illness: lessons from classical guitarist, Liona Boyd

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by Gordon Giddings, Editorial Fellow (2013-14), CMAJ One of the benefits of attending conferences is in getting to share knowledge and in meeting colleagues—seeing how things are done in other...

May 26 2014

Editors' Blog

Climate change, peer review, and the limits of medical expertise

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK There was a media storm on climate change last weekend in the UK....