Growing number of Canadian households contain deadly levels of radon gas, national study finds
Exposure to deadly radon gas in Canadian homes continues to grow, according to a nationwide study conducted by University of Calgary researchers. Nearly 18 per ... Read more.
Behind the Reporting: IJB Exposes Exploitative Cracks in the Clinical Trial Industry
I started working on this story as a 21-year-old IJB intern who knew nothing about clinical trials other than the ads I saw on the subway on my w... Read more.
Inside Canada’s ‘exploitative’ clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects
Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimenta... Read more.
He suffers debilitating side effects from a common medication. A simple test could have spared him. Why won’t Ontario and other provinces make the tests more widely available?
The U.K. aims to make pharmacogenomic tests more accessible, saying systematic testing “has the potential to transform patient’s lives.”... Read more.
Canadian officials found radiation levels in these northern Ontario homes ‘well above’ the safe limit. Their response: ‘¯\_(ツ)_/¯’
The number of homes in Elliot Lake affected by buried radioactive waste could top 100 — twice as many as previously thought.... Read more.
Surge in medically assisted deaths under Canada’s MAID program outpaces every other country
Canada’s psychiatric community has been divided on the country’s emergence as a global leader in assisted death under the MAID program.... Read more.
‘I thought I was safe’: Federal government’s radon advice creates a false sense of security
Health Canada defends its policy while a chorus of experts and cancer patients say a change would save lives When Traci Burke tested her home for deadly radon a... Read more.
Homeowners take feds to court over ‘radioactive’ waste
Federal agency says the problem falls outside its mandate Three homeowners in Elliot Lake are taking the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to Federal Co... Read more.
She found out she’d been breathing a cancer-causing gas for over a decade. So why won’t Canada’s health-care system let her get her lungs tested?
Canadians with documented levels of elevated radon in their homes are ineligible for publicly funded lung cancer screening, which is only for heavy smokers.... Read more.