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After more than four decades covering Canadian health care and record readership during the pandemic, CMAJ’s award-winning news department is closing due to cuts to the CMAJ Group’s budget. News editor Lauren Vogel and journalist Diana Duong will be moving to work on a newly formed newsroom within the Canadian Medical Association as part of an initiative to improve health news and information in Canada. As we close CMAJ News, here’s a look at the stories and issues that mattered most to us in recent years. COVID-19 Long before SARS-CoV-2 emerged, CMAJ News warned of the threat of viral misinfo ..read more

More than one in five Canadians – an estimated 6.5 million people – do not have a family physician or nurse practitioner they see regularly, according to a national survey. That’s a dramatic increase since 2019 when Statistics Canada estimated only 4.5 million people did not have a regular healthcare provider. The OurCare initiative, led by Tara Kiran at Unity Health Toronto, surveyed more than 9,000 people across Canada last fall about their access to primary care and preferences for the future. “One thing that was striking to me was just how much variation there is in access to a family doct ..read more

Part two of a series on medical pollution. Part one on medical waste here.  Canada’s health care system alone accounts for nearly 5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions, putting it ahead of the aviation industry. In 2021, Canada joined more than 50 nations in committing to achieving low-carbon, sustainable health systems, but so far, much of the progress towards that goal has come from the voluntary efforts of individual physicians. Myles Sergeant, a family physician in Hamilton, Ont., launched one such effort to cultivate partnerships on climate action across healthcare facil ..read more