What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors niemanlab.org/2024/04/what-i… via Nieman Lab Melissa Stasiuk #journalism

Canada’s underwhelming #disability benefit is a sign of a government devoid of vision and out of ideas, by ⁦André Picard⁩ via Globe Opinion ⁦Disability Without Poverty⁩ #poverty #inclusion theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Belgian man whose body makes its own #alcohol cleared of drunk-driving. Auto-brewery syndrome is brought on by intestinal problems. via The Guardian #DUI theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Muting people on social media is fast and free and will change your life via The Guardian theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

‘Nothing is going to stop me’: Céline Dion details life with stiff person syndrome via The Guardian #SPS theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

🧵Here we go again, another anti- #MAID activist in academe spouting the usual intellectually dishonest misread of Canada’s assisted dying laws, trying to convince the lay public there’s something grievously wrong.
There isn’t.
Here, the The Globe and Mail’s learned contributor
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Changes to capital-gains tax may prompt some doctors to quit, Canadian Medical Association warns, by Chris Hannay 
theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… via Report on Business Canadian Medical Association

'If you are a patient or a caregiver, you get told constantly that you must advocate...

...Institutions like gov'ts, hospitals or schools will never change on their own. They only change because they are forced to change.

Enter the advocates, the ones who force the change.' /1

Misinformation is not a new phenomenon – far from it.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how infodemics (an overabundance of information, including mis- and disinformation) pose a threat to health and confidence in research.

Expand the thread ⤵️

Éclipse solaire du 08 avril: Le ministère de la Santé rapporte 28 cas de lésions oculaires au Québec, par ⁦Katrine Desautels⁩ lp.ca/enmVWR?sharing…

'Therapy is working.'
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Simone Biles sits down to open up about her mental health journey, what led her to remove herself from the Olympics in 2021, and what support systems work for her. bit.ly/4aHViit

Emergency health care in Canada is in crisis. How does that impact doctors, nurses and patients? And what needs to be done to ease the burden on #ERs across the country?
Listen to CIHI_ICIS podcast #theCHIP where we interview CAEP Dr. Fraser Mackay and veteran paramedic

Thread on the beauty of our planet to celebrate Earth Day 🧵

1. Meteor over Mount Fuji by H. Manabe

Quebec Health Department reports 28 cases of eye 👁️ damage linked to solar eclipse via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Excellent article on #healthliteracy . Great point on the importance of giving people full free access to personal, as well as generic, health information to helping people understand + self-manage their health - part of #healthliteracy 💯

Why write?
'Arguments, Dennett found, rarely shift intuitions;
it’s through stories that we revise our sense of what’s natural. (He calls such stories 'intuition pumps.')'
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, Alberta study says, adding that #racism is part of the reason. calgaryherald.com/news/national/… via Calgary Herald CAEP

'Ban them all' -- With #Paris2024 Games looming, Chinese #doping scandal rocks Olympic swimming🏊‍♂️. 23 Chinese swimmers had positive tests for a potent performance-enhancing drug on the eve of the 2021 Games, by Brian Mann npr.org/2024/04/22/124… via Morning Edition

1 in 9 children ages 5 to 17 in the U.S. have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/… via The Washington Post #ADHD

The Cass Review Won’t Fade Away. How youth gender medicine broke almost every liberal institution it touched, by @JesseSingal thedispatch.com/article/the-ca… via @TheDispatch Benjamin Ryan #trans 🏳️‍⚧️