Category Canadian Bioethics
Canada’s Biggest Health Problem: Indigenous Health
Alison Reiheld calls attention to André Picard’s assertion that Indigenous health is currently the most urgent issue in Canada.
Paid Sick Days: The Better Way
Kelly Holloway describes how changes to business practices concerning sick days can be beneficial for workers’ health and the economy.
Fee-for-service: an ethical conflict
Andrew Mitchell suggests that innovative institutional changes are needed to sustain universal healthcare in Canada.
Using Social Media to Sell Prescription Drugs
Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon and Stanislav Birko consider how direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs using social media might be prevented by amending Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations.
Whither Peer Review at CIHR
Matthew Herder reviews three significant problems with the peer review system at CIHR, as a result of which high-quality research by social science and humanities researchers is left ‘undone.’
Ethics at CIHR: Moving Forward
Vardit Ravitsky and Judy Illes provide a summary overview of progress being made at CIHR with respect to its ethics mandate.
