CMAJ Podcasts
CMAJ Podcasts: Exploring the latest in Canadian medicine from coast to coast to coast with your hosts, Drs. Mojola Omole and Blair Bigham. CMAJ Podcasts delves into the scientific and social health advances on the cutting edge of Canadian health care. Episodes include real stories of patients, clinicians, and others who are impacted by our health care system.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 431
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Medical certificates of death in light of physician-assisted dying
If 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 F…
00:08:11 |
Mon 14 Dec 2015
Preterm birth: risk factor for early-onset adult chronic diseases
There 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 fo…
00:16:51 |
Mon 07 Dec 2015
Old battles, new frontiers: Dr. Mark Wainberg on HIV/AIDS
The 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 tr…
00:12:19 |
Tue 01 Dec 2015
Cognitive impairment screening of the elderly: clinical practice guideline
Interview 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 P…
00:13:55 |
Mon 30 Nov 2015
Medicine at sea: the front line of the migrant crisis
Some 800,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe this year. Many suffer from untreated injuries and medical conditions, and …
00:08:07 |
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Food allergy in historical perspective
Interview with Matthew Smith, senior lecturer at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.Dr. Smith discusses his humanities article ca…
00:14:23 |
Mon 16 Nov 2015
Acne management: Canadian clinical practice guideline
Interview with Dr. Shannon Humphrey, medical and cosmetic dermatologist in Vancouver, and assistant professor and director of CME in the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science at the University o…
00:23:48 |
Mon 16 Nov 2015
10 questions with Canada's prison watchdog Howard Sapers
Canada’s new Liberal government must soon decide whether to follow through on plans to replace Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers. Earlier this year, the former Conservative government gave Sape…
00:08:37 |
Wed 04 Nov 2015
Testosterone deficiency syndrome in adult males: clinical practice guideline
Interview with Dr. Alvaro Morales, urologist and Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Morales and a team of experts have published evidence-based guid…
00:28:14 |
Mon 26 Oct 2015
Allergy prevention in infants and timing of food introduction
Interview with Dr. Elissa Abrams, Pediatric Allergist Immunologist with the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Guidelines used to recommend that parents avoid feeding their inf…
00:21:10 |
Mon 19 Oct 2015
October 20th issue highlights and in-depth interviews
NEW FORMAT. Dr. Diane Kelsall, deputy editor, presents highlights of the October 20th issue of CMAJ. As well, listen to in-depth author interviews on selected articles. In this issue: - Outcomes of d…
00:55:08 |
Mon 19 Oct 2015
Fiscal prudence and health, food insecurity, physician experience, psychedelic medicine, and more
Highlights of the October 6th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. John Fletcher, editor-in-chief. In this issue: austerity and fiscal prudence are health issues, food insecurity and annual health care c…
00:07:15 |
Mon 05 Oct 2015
Architecture scholar Annmarie Adams on Medicine by Design
Hospitals today can look like shopping malls or, depending on your level of cynicism, Toys R Us. Some scholars of history argue these design changes reflect advances in medical knowledge and technolo…
00:08:49 |
Mon 05 Oct 2015
Iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis: clinical practice guideline
Interview with Dr. David Liu, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In their clinical practice guideline, Dr. Liu and colleag…
00:14:32 |
Mon 28 Sep 2015
Save Cochrane Canada, nasal balloon autoinflation, severe mental illness, vaccine pain, and more
Highlights of the September 22nd issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. John Fletcher, editor-in-chief. In this issue: funding for Cochrane Canada must continue, nasal balloon autoinflation as an effective …
00:07:24 |
Tue 22 Sep 2015
Cannabis legalization and public health
Interview with Dr. Sheryl Spithoff, addiction medicine specialist and family physician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. In a CMAJ analysis article, Dr. Spithoff and colleagues look at policies…
00:10:52 |
Mon 21 Sep 2015
Vaccine hesitancy and refusal in Canada
Interview with Dr. Noni MacDonald, Professor of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University with a clinical appointment in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Recen…
00:14:28 |
Wed 16 Sep 2015
Preventing fracture in long-term care: clinical practice guideline
In older adults living in long-term care facilities, fractures cause pain, agitation, immobility and transfer to hospital. Based on systematic reviews of the evidence, this guideline provides recomme…
00:11:45 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
Spinal cord injury in older patients, early stage breast cancer, stroke, glaucoma, e-cigs & more
Highlights of the September 8th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. Diane Kelsall, deputy editor. In this issue: rethinking treatment in older patients with spinal cord injury, why the federal governmen…
00:07:07 |
Tue 08 Sep 2015
Identifying skull fracture in young children: a clinical decision rule
Interview with Dr. Jocelyn Gravel, pediatric emergency physician and research director at Sainte-Justine hospital in Montreal. In a research article published in CMAJ, Dr. Gravel and colleagues deriv…
00:16:30 |
Tue 08 Sep 2015
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