For the past decade, Timothy Caulfield, a professor of health law in Alberta, Canada, has been waging war on pseudoscience.

hen should doctors start talking to teenage patients about the risks and benefits of vaccines?

A once-celebrated emergency department chief has resigned his position, five weeks after a Globe investigation revealed allegations from more than 20 doctors relating to gender discrimination and questionable billing practices.

A high-dose nicotine vaping device is taking off in Canada, and public health experts are concerned it will lead to a rise in nicotine addiction among youth.

Dr. Marko Duic has been celebrated by health ministry officials, hospital leaders and doctors for transforming emergency medicine. But over his 16 years as an emergency chief, another truth about Dr. Duic has emerged: He had not hired a single female doctor to work in his departments until October, weeks after The Globe and Mail began asking questions about his hiring practices.

Whether ethnicity should change fetal growth expectations is a heated debate in the medical community, not just in Canada, but internationally. The debate has repercussions for immigrant mothers across the country.

Shifting funds from health care budgets to housing programs can save money and improve health outcomes, according to Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and chief executive officer of NYC Health + Hospitals. But Toronto-based experts caution that improving health outcomes among homeless people is not that simple.

You’re probably eating way too much salt, and your body isn’t happy about it. Here’s what you need to know to be more aware of your sodium consumption—and reduce it.

Mike took a considerable risk every time he helped others inject. He knew he could potentially be held liable if something went wrong. He also knows that if he doesn’t help people inject, their chances of dying from overdose, or losing a limb to an infection, are higher.

What would it mean for doctors and patients if medical students didn’t have to pay tuition? Philanthropists Dr. P. Roy and Diana Vagelos think debt-free education would allow more students to enter high-need areas, including primary care, research and pediatrics.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is used to straddling worlds, having spent five years as a missionary kid in Colombia. Today, she is one of the world’s top climate scientists and communicators, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian and a pastor’s wife.

Medicine has a major gender wage gap, and recent data suggest practice styles, specialty choices and discrimination all factor into the discrepancy.

The Winnebago goes out most Tuesdays and Thursdays to community centres and adult learning centres throughout the Greater Toronto Area. An 18-year-old ‘bus,’ as clinicians call it, might not seem like the ideal place for a sexual and reproductive health appointment. But for women struggling to pay bills and look after children, the convenience is vital.

Diagnostic tests are better than ever but they pick up conditions that might be perfectly harmless, forcing us to rethink when things are best left alone.

No one can presume what led Robert to his death, but the stress and frustration he felt must have been enormous. What’s more, the situation he experienced and was trying desperately to expose is happening to others: a growing number of young people are completing four or five years of intensive, not to mention costly, medical school training – only to find they can’t proceed to the next stage.

IN THE 1970s, H. Gilbert Welch drove an ambulance as a college job in Boulder, Colorado, often blaring out Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight. Wanting to save lives led him to study medicine, but he came to realise that saving lives wasn’t as clear cut as he thought. Sometimes, he found, it can be better to do nothing.

Canadian doctors continue to follow the developments in the case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a junior doctor in the United Kingdom found guilty of manslaughter after a young boy under her care died because of medical error and systemic shortcomings. In late March, she was given a chance to appeal a ruling by the General Medical Council that saw her stripped of her medical licence. Medical residents in Canada are especially troubled that evidence used against Bawa-Garba included her honest reflecti

hen Dr. Lesley Barron was in medical school, she was told it would only be a matter of time before women occupied top leadership positions in medicine. There was reason for optimism. In 1995, a year before Barron graduated, more women than men entered medical school in Canada for the first time. Today, 63% of Canadian medical students are women. But a proportionate rise of female leaders in the profession has yet to be seen.

Dr. Sarah Newbery moved to Marathon, Ontario, to work in a group of family doctors in 1996. The group included three women and four men. Until then, there had never been a full-time female doctor in the community. Newbery has since seen the same shift occur in surrounding communities. A decade ago, there was a “frontier mentality” culture in northern medicine — it was a man’s world. Today, says Newbery, in many of the communities around her, more than half of the doctors are women.

ANDREW KOLODNY first noticed something was amiss in 2004, when his job as a medical director at New York City’s health department was to reduce drug overdose deaths. An expert in addiction treatment, he opened an evening and weekend clinic with the expectation that his patients would come from New York’s rougher neighbourhoods, where overdose deaths had been concentrated for decades. But many of those who turned up came from wealthy areas like Long Island and Westchester. About a third were eld