Category Public Health

For-profit plasma clinics are risky business

Monika Dutt counsels Health Canada against changing its policy, and allowing payment to donors for blood or plasma.

The hypocrisy of bullying away obesity

Ryan Tonkens comments on the role of public shaming in curbing obesity in Canada

Informing Canadian Medical Tourists

Jeremy Snyder, Valorie Crooks, Krystyna Adams and Rory Johnston discuss their work on informing Canadians that participate in medical tourism

Willing Physician Clauses in Canada

Ryan Tonkens discusses the impact of ‘willing physician clauses’ on physician-assisted dying and abortion in Canada

Organ Donation, Death and Harm

Walter Glannon discusses the role of death in the ethics of organ donation, and responds to some of his critics