Going through my inbox the other day, an email caught my attention. It invited me to participate in a research project examining “caregiver burden” in families of children with medical complexity. I completed the survey, but I also wrote to the research team to ask about their choice of language. By using the word “burden,”…
Recently, President Trump, with the backing of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, went on a tirade arguing that pregnant women should not take Tylenol (acetaminophen) as it can lead to autism. He implied that the explosive epidemic of autism is due to the behaviour of mothers, in the medicine that they inappropriately consume. There…
On February 2, the U.S. President made unfounded allegations that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has “been run by a bunch of radical lunatics,” followed by Elon Musk stating falsely on his social platform ‘X’ that “USAID is a criminal organization.” These statements followed a January 20 Executive Order to pause all…
It was not surprising to read a strong, clear case for access to primary health care in Dr. Jane Philpott’s prescription to reform health care in Canada, in her manifesto Health for All: A Doctor’s Prescription for a Healthier Canada. I was surprised by her focus on spiritual health in the second section – as…
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