- The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame selected six people for induction in 2016. They include Michael Bliss, a medical historian; Dr. May Cohen, a women’s health advocate; Dr. Gordon Guyatt, an evidence-based medicine guru; Dr. David Naylor, the head of a national health innovation panel; the late Sir Charles Tupper, a physician, father of Confederation and Canada’s sixth Prime Minister; and Dr. Mark Wainberg, an HIV/AIDS researcher and activist.
- Instead of prescribing opioids, which can lead to addiction and overdose, Canadian physicians should prescribe medical marijuana, said experts from the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in a commentary in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. The regulations on medical pot are unnecessarily strict, said one author.