ICYMI, check out the The Globe and Mail's profiles of this year's Gairdner laureates. Whenever the news feels dark, I love reading about brilliant people changing the world for the better. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

I've spent the last few weeks geeking out on medical research, writing about the Gairdner Award winners for CAR-T immunotherapy and some promising clinical trials for preventing Alzheimer's. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

#Podcast alert: Spoke with host Menaka Raman-Wilms #TheDecibel re implementing the right to primary care. theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-d…
Described the #OurCare Standard established by Tara Kiran et al after listening to >10,000 Canadians about what we need in every neighbourhood. #HealthForAll

2024 Gairdner Award recipients paved way for revolutions in #cancer treatment, #genomics , and #GlobalHealth , by Ivan Semeniuk Carly Weeks Kelly Grant André Picard theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail Gairdner Foundation

A housing remedy for Canada’s hard-hit ERs: As a small number of homeless patients make thousands of emergency room visits, hospitals grapple with how to better treat people with nowhere else to turn, by @MollyHayes Yang Sun
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After New Brunswick, it's now Newfoundland Auditor General's turn to announce a review of health sector contracts. All this comes in the wake of our The Globe and Mail investigation into travel nursing contracts in Atlantic Canada.
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Here's an interesting approach to cutting out the for-profit middlemen in travel nursing. Nfld is paying staff nurses an extra $25 an hour to work short stints in remote communities, mostly in Labrador. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

ICYMI yesterday, the fallout continues from our investigation of travel nursing contracts in New Brunswick. Here's Tu Thanh Ha's story. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Way to go Temur Durrani and crew!

The Ivan Semeniuk science reporter origin story is even better than I imagined. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Are we 'overmedicalizing' menopause? Or denying Cdn women access to HRT because of a shortage of family docs and menopause specialists? I'm on The Decibel with Menaka Raman-Wilms //www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-the-debate-around-using-hormone-therapy-for-menopause/

New #SecretCanada post: Save yourself a piggyback! The Investigative Journalism Foundation has launched an incredible new database — Open By Default — that contains more than a decade of previously released federal ATIP records. secretcanada.com/news/ijf-foi-d…

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New Brunswick's Auditor-General has announced it will probe travel nursing contracts after our investigation of the industry. www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en…

Happy birthday,🎂The Globe and Mail: 180 years ago today, George Brown launched The Globe.🗞️Today, its promise remains the same: To provide #journalism that matters, by The Globe and Mail publisher Andrew Saunders theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

My colleague Tu Thanh Ha has confirmed in New Brunswick the same pattern we reported on in Newfoundland with private staffing agency Canadian Health Labs. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Pharmacare legislation has been tabled. Here’s what you need to know theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

This is not good.

This is an amazing program. I did it in 2002 and it was one of the best summers of my life. You’ll have a blast and learn a ton.

And more fallout from our private nursing investigation, as the Nfld government asks the comptroller-general to probe contracts with Canadian Health Labs. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…