Category Public Health

Policy Laundering and payment-for-plasma

Matthew Herder and Françoise Baylis assert there is no evidence for the need of paid plasma donations in Canada.

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