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The WHO is slowly moving forward on airborne transmission. But language changes seem forced and unnecessary.
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Mashup Score: 2Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy Debate - 1 month(s) ago
Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. We need to correct bothsideism and misinformation.
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Mashup Score: 8Food oral immunotherapy through a parent’s lens: A paradigm shift in food allergy management - Healthy Debate - 2 month(s) ago
A case study highlights the importance of the patient’s perspective in navigating food allergies and of advocating for yourself in the face of scarce resources.
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Mashup Score: 15Setting the record straight: Medical experts debunk the biggest myths in their field - Healthy Debate - 2 month(s) ago
We polled a panel of health experts on the most pervasive misinformation in their specialty and asked them to set the record straight.
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Mashup Score: 3Why screening guideline committees should not include ‘experts’ as voting members - Healthy Debate - 2 month(s) ago
Is there a better way to address the Canadian Task Force recommendations? No, experts must remain excluded as voting members.
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Mashup Score: 3Please leave politicians out of the exam room. Proposed changes to transgender health policies set a dangerous precedent - Healthy Debate - 3 month(s) ago
The changes to Alberta’s health care policies aimed at transgender youth set a dangerous precedent for all Canadians.
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Mashup Score: 0Naturopathic doctors: Underutilized partners in public health and primary care - Healthy Debate - 6 month(s) ago
Naturopathic doctors (NDs) have an important role to play in the health-care system. We need a pilot project to assess the viability of ND integration into team-based primary care models.
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Mashup Score: 8Reforming the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: Experts speak out - Healthy Debate - 6 month(s) ago
Most assume that the Canadian task force guidelines are led by content expert specialist clinicians. But this is not the case. The task force says it excludes content experts from genuine involvement in guideline development to avoid conflicts of interest. However, in the Canadian health-care context, this is not a valid argument. In 2022, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released recommendations against using a tool (the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale – EPDS) to screen for depressio
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Mashup Score: 1Excluding experts doesn’t make sense - Healthy Debate - 6 month(s) ago
Now, the att ention turns toward the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Will it follow the U.S. recommendations, as it has in the past? The ongoing discourse surrounding mammographic screening has stirred speculation about the upcoming revision of Canadian guidelines that were last updated in 2018. The process has been expedited with substantial funding of $500,000, with the revision expected this fall. There always have been disparate opinions on breast-cancer screening, but does the current
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Mashup Score: 8Reforming the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: Experts speak out - Healthy Debate - 6 month(s) ago
Most assume that the Canadian task force guidelines are led by content expert specialist clinicians. But this is not the case. The task force says it excludes content experts from genuine involvement in guideline development to avoid conflicts of interest. However, in the Canadian health-care context, this is not a valid argument. In 2022, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released recommendations against using a tool (the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale – EPDS) to screen for depressio
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Droplet or airborne? @WHO says it’s ‘through the air’ https://t.co/Zv4G3HzM7V via @jvipondmd