If there’s one clear health issue our readers are concerned with, it’s wider changes and stresses to public health care systems, especially on a provincial level.
We covered systemic issues, as well as medical trends, aging, and what wellness even means in 2024.
Don’t Get Sick in Quebec
BY TOULA DRIMONIS
What happens when a government decides to prioritize language laws over nurses and doctors?
You Don’t Have to Move into a Nursing Home. There’s a Better Way
BY CATHRIN BRADBURY
A bold experiment in elder care is giving Canadians control over where and how they grow old
The Ozempic Era Is Distorting What We See as Healthy
BY KC HOARD
Fat people are constantly told they have to shed pounds. What will weight loss–inducing medicines really cost us?
Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless
BY MONICA KIDD
Doctors are looking to an experimental treatment for help
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick
BY JONATHAN N. STEA
Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything
Dr. Sheila Wijayasinghe: How to Self-Advocate as a Perimenopausal Patient
BY THE WALRUS TALKS
Family Doctors’ Burnout Is about More than Their Workload
BY SAMIA MADWAR
Many physicians believe there needs to be a reset in how they treat patients—and their own well-being
Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation
BY LAAKKULUK WILLIAMSON BATHORY
My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt
The Lobby Group That Owns the Conversation around Assisted Deaths
BY MIRANDA SCHREIBER
Dying with Dignity Canada played a huge part in the legalization of MAID. Few have the resources to oppose them
