Category: Editors’ Blog

Aug 10 2015

Hunger in a land of plenty

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor at CMAJ More than 800 000 Canadians access food banks each month, and no province or territory is unaffected by food insecurity. As...

Jul 12 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Dangerous ideas

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, recently returned from the Society for Academic Primary Care’s annual conference in Oxford, UK What sort of research would we be doing...

Jul 08 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Measuring impact – #sapcasm day 1

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, currently at the Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference Measuring research...

Jul 07 2015

Editors' Blog

CMAJBlogs is celebrating its first blogiversary!

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ CMAJ Blogs launched just over a year ago and has seen a great first year of fantastic content. It has been a...

Jun 18 2015

Editors' Blog

On women in Science and Medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Perhaps too slow, perhaps too nervous, but now that the London Times...

Jun 05 2015

Editors' Blog

Psychiatry conferences and the outsider’s view

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Looking at medical conferences as an outsider gives a different perspective. As...

May 22 2015

Editors' Blog

New evidence raises the stakes for treatment of cystic fibrosis, and other highlights of #ATS2015

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Matthew Stanbrook is Deputy Editor at CMAJ; he recently returned from the American Thoracic Society 2015 annual meeting in Denver, Colorado Denver has always presented a striking contrast of...

May 22 2015

Editors' Blog

Where does primary care fit into the escalating cancer challenge?

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. She’s currently attending the 2015 Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) conference, in Aarhus, Denmark. ...

May 03 2015

Editors' Blog

Sea Sick

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Barbara Sibbald is editor, News and Humanities, at CMAJ Is Sea Sick a one-woman play or a live TED-esque talk? Hard to know, but harder still to care about...

Apr 30 2015

Editors' Blog

Small steps to tackle obesity at the Canadian Obesity Summit

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open “Just because obesity is complex, it doesn’t mean that we should be paralyzed by inaction.” So said...

Apr 27 2015

Editors' Blog

Creating space in Medicine for social science

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Barbara Sibbald is Editor, News and Humanities, at CMAJ Long billed as a symposium for arts, humanities and the social sciences in the education of health professionals, the fifth...

Apr 22 2015

Editors' Blog

Physical activity and its health benefits

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Is being sedentary the new smoking? Many have posed this question and there...

Apr 20 2015

Editors' Blog

Author interview with Dr. Prabhat Jha – tobacco control in the next decade

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Dr. Moneeza Walji, editorial fellow, interviews Dr. Prabhat Jha, founding and current director of the Centre for Global Health Research in Toronto. In their commentary published in CMAJ, Dr. Jha...

Apr 17 2015

Editors' Blog

#EbolaRecovery

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Today, World Bank HQ hosted a round table discussion on plans for ‘Ebola Recovery’ in West Africa. Heads of state of Guinea,...