Dr. Barry Dworkin

  • Late night with John Counsell: Losing Family Doctors thanks to McGuinty's health care decisions

    Late night with John Counsell, May 17, 2012 We discuss my reasons for posting this and how patient access to care and their doctor will suffer [display_podcast]

  • Death of family practice in Ontario coming to you soon

    Here is the official document from the OMA outlining the future death of family practice. For those of you that are not physicians on this list, you WILL lose your doctor if this stuff goes through. When you read the section on negation, this means that your doctor will have to pay for ALL of…

  • The Art of "Science Reporting"

    Martin Robbins of the Guardian provides a sad yet humourous and true representation of the state of most science reporting.

  • Maple syrup's health claims unproven

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 22, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Pure maple syrup good for health Comment: Big surprise that the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers are jumping all over this. The report does not involve human testing and cannot make any association with claims of anti-cancer, anti-bacterial and anti-diabetic properties. Further, even if…

  • The New Coke! Now with added vitamins and minerals

    Dr. Yoni Freedhoff outlines in an article written in this month’s CMAJ how Health Canada is pushing a policy that will allow fortification of foods with vitamins and minerals without any evidence that it will improve public health. Moreover, there is a real risk of overconsumption of said additions to our food supply that can…

  • I need a Big Mac before my Olympic time trial

    Ottawa Citizen journalist Dan Gardner castigates, and rightly so, how Olympic athletes sell out to corporations for oodles of cash without any consideration for the potential harm to public health outcomes. His column can be read here.

  • MMR/autism paper fully retracted by the Lancet

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 3, 2010 [display_podcast] Comment: This is a story that we have covered extensively over the years on Sunday House Call. An excellent synopsis can be heard in our interview with Guardian columnist Dr. Ben Goldacre here. I hold the some of the media just as responsible as Dr. Wakefield…

  • Cool new app

    Thanks to my friend and webmaster Brigitte Pellerin, I am now the proud owner of this app that provides quick access to my daily Health Headline hits with CFRA’s Steve Madely and access to all the audio interviews from my Sunday House Call Show.

  • Do nut-free zones on airplanes make sense to you?

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 11, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Air Canada ordered to create nut-free buffer zones A CFRA web poll asked this question and I discussed this with Steve Madely. This is a continuation of our discussion from last week.