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Send us a textInterview with Dr. Brandace Winquist, research consultant with the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council, a maternal-perinatal health researcher, and a collaborator with the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies. In a research article she co-authored, Dr. Winquist and her colleagues found that the isotretinoin/accutane pregnancy prevention program in Canada was relatively ineffective over a 15-year period in which nearly 60 000 women in 4 provinces received prescriptions for the drug. Risks of maternal isotretinoin therapy to the developing fetus are well recognized.Full research article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151243To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach o

Send us a textInterview with Dr. Camilla Zimmermann, head of the palliative care program at UHN in Toronto, associate professor and Rose family Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, as well as senior scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. In a research article she co-authored, Dr. Zimmermann conducted interviews with patients and their caregivers in an effort to understand attitude and perceptions about palliative care. Early palliative care improves quality of life, symptom management and satisfaction with care in patients with advanced cancer. However, stigma associated with the term palliative care may be a barrier to timely referral. Full research article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151171To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explo

Send us a textMichael Bliss' award-winning books introduced readers around the world to Canada’s greatest medical achievements and heroes, from the discovery of insulin to the "secular saint" Dr. William Osler, a founding father of modern medicine.For these and other contributions to the canon of medical history, Bliss will be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame on April 14. In this podcast, he shares lessons from Canada's medical past. To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English): @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

Send us a textMadness is inextricably part of civilization and central to the human experience. Interview with Andrew Scull, professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.Read Andrew Scull’s Medicine and Society essay article published in the CMAJ: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151418To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English): @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

Send us a textThis guideline by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care presents evidence-based recommendations for primary care providers on screening for developmental delay in children aged one to four years with no apparent signs of such delay in primary care settings. The guideline does not offer recommendations for surveillance, case finding or diagnosis of developmental delay. Dr. Patricia Parkin is a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children, and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. She co-authored the guideline, published in the CMAJ.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151437To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us ab

Send us a textInterview with Donna Dickenson, emeritus professor of medical ethics and humanities at the University of London. Consumer genetic testing, and subsequent personalized medicine are, by some accounts, the harbingers of a revolution in medicine. In the sphere of pharmacology, this conceit has ethical and practical implications, says international ethics expert Donna Dickenson.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151320To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English): @CM

Send us a textInternational guidelines recommend limiting the daily intake of added sugars to less than 5% to 10% of calories. Unlike the 2015 US proposal for changes to the nutrition label, Canada’s proposed changes exclude the declaration of added sugars. The authors of a CMAJ commentary call on the new federal government to rethink this in the interests of public health. Mandating transparency about added sugars on nutrition labels in Canada would be a public health win.Jodi Bernstein is a registered dietitian and a PhD candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mary L’Abbé is the Earle W. McHenry chair and professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto.In this interview podcast, they speak with Dr. Diane Kelsall, interim editor-in-chief of the CMAJ.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151081To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your f

Send us a textThe Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) has updated its recommendations on screening for lung cancer. In contrast to its previous guidance, the task force now recommends using low-dose CT to screen adults between 55 and 74 years of age who are at high risk for lung cancer on an annual basis for three consecutive years. The change in recommendation is based on a systematic review incorporating new evidence.In this interview podcast, Dr. Gabriela Lewin explains the new recommendations. Dr. Lewin is a member of the CTFPHC and chair of the Lung Cancer Working Group. She is also a family physician in Kemptville, Ontario, and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Ottawa. Full guideline: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151421To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit w

Send us a textWomen’s health pioneer Dr. May Cohen will soon join other luminaries in the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Cohen entered medicine at a time when less than 10% of graduating physicians were female and textbook medical research was based on a 70kg male body. She later went on to shatter that paradigm, co-founding Canada’s first Women’s Health Office at McMaster University, as well as the Women’s Health InterSchool Curriculum Committee for Ontario medical schools. Cohen joins CMAJ reporter Lauren Vogel to reflect on the changing status of women in medicine.To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English): @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Po

Send us a textAn examination of clinical data from one Canadian diagnostic centre shows that active surveillance has become an increasingly common management strategy for men with low-grade prostate cancer, instead of immediate treatment.Dr. Rodney Breau, co-author of the research article, explains in this interview podcast. Dr. Breau is a surgical oncologist at The Ottawa Hospital, assistant professor of urology at The University of Ottawa, and associate scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150832To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on

Send us a textWho should be screened for colorectal cancer? How often? What screening method should be used? Dr. Maria Bacchus, internist at Foothills Hospital in Calgary and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary, explains in this podcast. Dr. Bacchus is one of the authors of this 2016 Canadian Task Force colorectal cancer screening guideline published in the CMAJ.Full guideline: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151125To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @Drmojolaomol

Send us a textInterview with two authors of a large population-based study from Ontario. The authors looked at risk of suicide following a concussion. They also compared weekend versus weekend concussion. Dr. Donald Redelmeier is a general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, professor in the department of medicine at the University of Toronto, and senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto. Dr. Michael Fralick is a chief resident in internal medicine at the University of Toronto as well as a trainee at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150790To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach

Send us a textInterview with Dr. Derek MacFadden, infectious diseases physician practising at the University Health Network in Toronto as well as doctoral student in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Boston.Dr. MacFadden is the co-author of a practice article published in the CMAJ. He tells us what we need to know about the Zika virus, which is spreading rapidly throughout South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico via bites from infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The virus has been linked with neurologic illnesses and congenital microcephaly.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151486To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us

Send us a textFor out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurring in high-rise residential buildings, the survival rate is lower for patients on higher floors, according to findings of a large retrospective database study from Ontario. The logistics of delivering emergency care in high-rise buildings may contribute to lower survival. In this podcast, Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, deputy editor for CMAJ, interviews Ian Drennan, Advanced Care paramedic and instructor in Toronto and a Phd Candidate with Rescu, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.In their research article, Ian and his colleagues compare the rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest at different floors of high-rise buildings. They also looked at delay to reaching patients in high rises.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150544To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts

Send us a textRCTs of treatment as prevention have shown significant prevention of onward HIV transmission among serodiscordant couples, but observational studies of clinical practice have not consistently replicated these findings. There are particular concerns among men who have sex with men (MSM). In this podcast, Dr. Paul MacPherson explores some of the issues. Dr. MacPherson is a specialist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, and the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa, and a clinician scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.In their analysis article, Dr. MacPherson and his co-author Patrick O’Byrne examine HIV treatment as prevention in MSM.Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150605To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite

Send us a textDiagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is essential to improve outcomes for affected individuals and families, and to inform pre-pregnancy counselling to prevent future cases. This guideline from the Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network provides evidence-based recommendations for best practices in the diagnosis of this condition.In this podcast, two of the authors of the guideline explain what to look for in clinical practice. Dr. Valerie Temple is a clinical psychologist at Surrey Place Centre in Toronto, and Dr. Christine Loock is a developmental pediatrician at Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, with an academic appointment at UBC.Full guideline: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.141593To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can v

Send us a textIf physician-assisted death becomes legal in Canada, physicians need to know whether and, if so, how to record it on medical certificates of death. In this podcast, Jocelyn Downie, Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Law, at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, discusses the best approach by examining current practice and best principles.Professor Downie and her co-author Kacie Oliver have published an analysis article in the CMAJ. Full analysis article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151130To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you

Send us a textThere is mounting evidence now suggesting that prematurity may lead to a variety of adult diseases, such as hypertension, obstructive lung disease, or osteopenia. However, there is little guidance for physicians on how to provide proper long-term follow-up for their patients who were born preterm. In this podcast, two of the co-authors of a review article published in CMAJ, Dr. Tuy Mai Luu, clinician-scientist at Sainte-Justine Hospital and teaching assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal, and Dr. Anne-Monique Nuyt, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal and Chief of neonatology at Sainte-Justine Hospital explain the evidence linking pre-term birth and adult chronic diseases.Full review article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150450To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also

Send us a textThe Canadian Medical Hall of Fame will soon honour Dr. Mark Wainberg for his achievements in HIV research and AIDS advocacy. From the initial identification of 3TC, one of the most widely used HIV treatments, to drawing unprecedented attention to global disparities in access to antiretrovirals as president of the International AIDS Society, Dr. Wainberg's work has helped save millions of lives worldwide. In this podcast, he joins CMAJ reporter Lauren Vogel to reflect on his legacy and new work towards a cure.To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English): @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

Send us a textInterview with Dr. Kevin Pottie, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Pottie is also Principal Scientist at the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute at the University of Ottawa. As people age, changes to the structure and the function of the brain may result in cognitive decline. These changes, however, do not equally affect all cognitive domains or all people. Should we screen our asymptomatic patients for cognitive impairment? In this evidence-based guideline, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends that we don’t. Dr. Pottie explains in this podcast.Full guideline: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.141165To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit