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Send us a textStuart Kinmond reads the CMAJ Humanities Encounters article "Cutting through the shame". The article is written by Stephen P. Lewis, associate professor in psychology at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. In the article, the author reflects on a period of self-injury and what he learned from it.Article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.160119-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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

Send us a textPhysicians from many specialties may care for inpatients with opioid use disorder. An acute hospital admission is an opportunity to engage with patients who have this common, chronic disorder, discuss addiction treatment and possibly affect the course of their illness. In this podcast, Dr. Joseph Donroe, assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses the best approach to specific problems that may arise when a patient with chronic opioid use disorder is hospitalized for another reason. Potential problems include withdrawal symptoms and managing acute pain.Dr. Donroe co-authored a review article published in the CMAJ. Full article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.160290To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 tha

Send us a textAlthough physicians generally recognize that social determinants influence the health of their patients, many are unsure how they can intervene. Dr. Anne Andermann, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and founding director of the CLEAR Collaboration, discusses how physicians and allied health care workers can address social determinants in their day-to-day practice.Full review article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.160177To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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

Send us a textIn this cross-sectional study of grade 9 students in the Niagara region of Ontario, reported use of e-cigarettes was common and associated with potential risk factors, including exposure to use of tobacco by family members and friends, and personal tobacco use. Most teens reported trying e-cigarettes because it was cool/fun/new rather than for smoking reduction or cessation.Dr. Michael Khoury, paediatric cardiology resident at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, discusses the CMAJ research article he co-authored.Full research article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151169To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 s

Send us a textInterview with Dr. Mandar Jog, Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence at London Health Sciences Centre, Director of the Movement Disorders Program in London, Ontario and Professor of Neurology at Western University. Parkinson disease remains a clinical diagnosis, based on motor symptoms and signs. Dr. Jog discusses what’s new in our understanding and treatment of this common neurodegenerative disorder. He co-authored a review article published in the CMAJ.Full review article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.151179To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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

Send us a textInterview with Dr. Celia Rodd, Associate Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Manitoba. She is also clinician-scientist and epidemiologist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. In their cross-sectional study, Dr. Rodd and her co-author Dr. Atul Sharma found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Canadian children decreased from 30.7% to 27.0% between 2004 and 2013, following a period of dramatic growth during 1978–2004.Full research article: https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.150854To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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

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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caJoin 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caJoin 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe 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 cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts