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Apr 17 2015

Editors' Blog

#EbolaRecovery

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today, World Bank HQ hosted a round table discussion on plans for ‘Ebola Recovery’ in West Africa. Heads of state of Guinea,...

Mar 23 2015

Editors' Blog

French doctor speaks out in pollution controversy

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK CMAJ and other medical journals have called for medical leadership on climate change and...

Feb 27 2015

Editors' Blog

Public Health’s ten year victory over tobacco

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today, February 27th 2015, marks the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (#FCTC10)....

Feb 06 2015

Editors' Blog, Medical aid in dying

Physician-assisted dying in Canada: the gavel has fallen

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today is a momentous day for physicians in Canada. No matter what your opinion about whether or not physician assisted dying is...

Feb 04 2015

Editors' Blog

Who’s afraid of three-parent babies?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yesterday, after a long public consultation by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority and a heated debate and vote in the English...

Dec 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Happy Universal Health Coverage Day

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today, 12/12/14, sees 533 partners in 103 countries participating in events to mark the first ever World Universal Health Coverage Day. Supported...

Oct 30 2014

Editors' Blog

Defending the political prescription for obesity

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   There’s a quote from the film ‘When Harry Met Sally‘, (Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal) that I always thought was rather profound. One...

Sep 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Let’s put a firecracker under health care innovation in Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   A recently published CMAJ Q&A with David Naylor, chair of the federal government’s new Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, hinted at how...

Sep 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Creatively transforming the patient experience (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is a deputy editor at CMAJ   Health care professionals need to learn to do more to encourage self-expression in healing. Watching Friday’s TEDMED session entitled ‘Weird and...

Sep 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Rethinking the delivery of breastfeeding advice (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is deputy editor at CMAJ Breastfeeding? Really? At TEDMED? C’mon breastfeeding is as old as humanity and we know everything there is to know about its benefits (just...

Aug 19 2014

Editors' Blog

Climate change and the circumpolar experience

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ, currently at the IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in Anchorage, Alaska   The 20th International Epidemiology Association World Congress being held in...

Aug 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons on healthy ageing from the 15th FINA World Masters Swimming Competition

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ I’ve come back to competitive swimming in the last couple of years, as a Master. Although I enjoyed a youth spent in...

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...

Apr 04 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons in Psychology and Animal Husbandry from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting

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  by Kirsten Patrick, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Victoria, BC Human beings are often difficult to fathom. In a lecture about the health effects (present and expected) of climate change,...