Category: Editors’ Blog

Jun 05 2014

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 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...

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....

May 21 2014

Editors' Blog

Do we eat too much salt—or not? More from the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Hamilton, ON We all eat too much salt, right? And even if we’re perfectly healthy right now, without individual and population-level efforts to...

May 20 2014

Editors' Blog

To eat or not to eat: the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Hamilton, ON What should—and shouldn’t—we eat? A confusing and sometimes conflicting mass of information seems to arise continually from new research studies, media...

May 13 2014

Editors' Blog

The Giro, Pantani, and a message for medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ associate editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The circus came to town. The Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s great...

May 07 2014

Editors' Blog

Reflections on falling teenage pregnancy rates

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ associate editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen in England and Wales according to recent reports....

Apr 28 2014

Editors' Blog

Creating space for medical humanities

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by Barbara Sibbald, Editor, News and Humanities, CMAJ Educational standards for physicians in Ontario originally included eight roles. When these morphed into the CanMeds physician competency standards there were...

Apr 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Insights into depression, suicide and PTSD from Northern Ireland

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by Domhnall MacAuley, CMAJ Associate editor In her inaugural professorial lecture Professor Siobhan O’Neill of Ulster University had some fascinating insights into the psychological manifestations of the patients we see...

Apr 15 2014

Editors' Blog

More from the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport

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by Domhnall MacAuley, CMAJ Associate editor, in Monaco. Concussion is the current big story. Football, Hockey, Boxing and even Cricket have their own internal debates addressing issues including, helmets, rules...

Apr 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport: the IOC World Conference

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From Domhnall MacAuley, CMAJ Associate editor, in Monaco Dr Richard Budgett, IOC Medical Director and former Olympic gold medalist, pointed out in his introduction to the IOC World Conference that...