Healthy Debate • 2nd May 2024

Stitched Together

This series is a deep dive into the lives and working conditions of health-care professionals across Canada. It includes six profiles that explore the challenges, triumphs and priorities not only of our the health-care system as a whole, but of the workers who support it.

Healthy Debate • 13th March 2024

Setting the record straight: Medical experts debunk the biggest myths in their field

These days, it's hard to know what to believe. We polled a panel of health experts on the most pervasive misinformation in their specialty and asked them to set the record straight.

Healthy Debate • 12th March 2024

Waging war on our immune systems: Immunologist explains the horrifying toll of measles

Though the horrors of measles are too far back for many in North America to remember, there was a time when measles decimated entire populations. With measles making a comeback and vaccination rates that haven’t kept up, what can we expect as the virus continues to spread?

Filter Mag • 5th March 2024

Future of DULF Compassion Club Will Hinge on Judicial Review

A judicial review of Canada’s decision to deny a peer-led safe supply group an exemption to operate legally will begin on March 7 in the Federal Court of Canada in Vancouver.

Healthy Debate • 14th June 2023

Finding your energy envelope: Long COVID patients urged to ‘pace’ themselves back to health - Healthy Debate

For many long COVID patients, returning to activity can cause debilitating "crashes." But symptom management techniques like pacing can offer relief and may even help some patients slowly recover.

J-Source | News, research and commentary about jou • 12th May 2023

The toxic standards that have shaped coverage of drug use in Canada | J-Source

While a health crisis has unfolded, newsrooms have had to learn to do better. But the changes in framing haven’t always come fast enough or extended to the workers with lived experience

Healthy Debate • 12th April 2023

Blockchain and the future of medicine - Healthy Debate

Move over Bitcoin, blockchain is no longer just for cryptocurrency. The technology could improve transparency, trust and efficiency in health-care settings. But what exactly is blockchain and how do we make the best use of it in health care?

Healthy Debate • 29th March 2023

‘Technology to help bridge the gap’: Smart homes and sensors ease caregiver burden - Healthy Debate

Smart home technology has become ubiquitous in recent years. Now researchers in Ottawa are finding ways to use this same technology to aid health-care workers, family caregivers, and allow patients to age in place.

Healthy Debate • 8th March 2023

Model that predicts MS relapse highlights AI’s expanding role in health care - Healthy Debate

AI can be taught to do a lot. But can it help doctors make better clinical decisions? One MS clinic in Ontario is trialing an AI model that could help doctors determine how to treat their patients.

Healthy Debate • 5th December 2022

Groundbreaking research into ME/CFS a pandemic ‘silver lining’ - Healthy Debate

ME/CFS is a misunderstood complex chronic illness affecting more than 600,000 Canadians. For decades ME/CFS patients have been left without proper medical support. But now, with the wave of new post-viral illnesses from the COVID-19 pandemic, ME/CFS patients might finally see some answers.

Healthy Debate • 2nd November 2022

The Faces & Phases of COVID-19 - Healthy Debate

The Faces/Phases Project is a portrait of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Through a series of data visualizations, we cover the first two years of the pandemic.

Healthy Debate • 30th April 2022

In ‘Heroin,’ author lays bare the injustice and systemic racism behind Canada’s drug laws - Healthy Debate

For International Overdose Awareness Day (Aug. 31), Healthy Debate sat down with Dr. Susan Boyd to discuss her latest book, Heroin: An Illustrated History. Boyd is a scholar, activist and Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Victoria. Her research examines a variety of topics related to drug prohibition. In Heroin, Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic and the decades of resistance to harm-reduction policies. The book looks at two centuries of Cana

Healthy Debate • 20th April 2022

Group pushes for ‘compassion club model’ to address surge of deaths from toxic drug supply - Healthy Debate

Six years after the B.C. government declared the overdose epidemic a public health emergency, policies have failed to slow the scourge.

Healthy Debate • 31st August 2021

COVID-19 and animal populations

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of three articles on the unknowns we still face around COVID-19. Part 1: Fourth wave raises new set of challenges. Part 2: A call for better data.

Healthy Debate • 31st August 2021

A call for better data

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the unknowns we still face around COVID-19. Part 1: Fourth wave raises new set of challenges. Part 3: COVID-19 and animal populations.

Healthy Debate • 31st August 2021

‘It's not clear yet how it’s going to play out’

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three articles on the unknowns we still face around COVID-19. Part 2: A call for better data. Part 3: COVID-19 and animal populations.

Healthy Debate • 23rd August 2021

B.C. expansion to safe supply a start but 'still too little too late'

The Tyee • 2nd July 2021

Informed Pharmacists Are Key for Drug Users. A New Program Will Train Them

Health workers who understand addiction are badly needed on the overdose crisis’s frontlines.

The Tyee • 24th June 2021

‘Is This Just New Mom Stress?’ Experts Say Canada Faces a Perinatal Mental Health Crisis

The pandemic has worsened existing issues with screening and access to treatment, leaving new parents alone and in danger.

The Tyee • 14th June 2021

BC Enters Next Stage of Eased COVID Restrictions

Theatres to open, larger gatherings and in-province travel are all allowed as vaccinations increase and cases stay low.