• Sunday House Call, #696, June 2, 2019: All the medical news that is fit to print is rife with perception and sensational bias

    Sunday House Call, #696, June 2, 2019: All the medical news that is fit to print is rife with perception bias Topics today include: The media’s reporting of medical stories are still using the 7+ charged words that should not be part of any medical news story. Your health care dollars being wasted on bureaucracy…

  • Wednesday House Call,   March 21, 2018: New shingles vaccine guidelines

    Wednesday House Call,   March 21, 2018 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. We talk about new guidelines for shingles prevention and the new vaccine that has just been approved for use in Canada. Vaccination to prevent herpes zoster ●For most patients who meet criteria for zoster…

  • Sunday House Call #301, April 25, 2010

    Sunday House Call #301, April 25, 2010 Topics include how Coca-Cola’s new advertising of upfront calorie labeling is misleading, and caller questions about knee replacement surgery, hypertension, inflammatory lung disease, low platelet counts, thyroid nodules and venous insufficiency.

  • Annual Report on Hip and Knee Replacements in Canada

    In a report entitled, The Canadian Joint Replacement Registry (CJRR) 2006 Annual Report on Hip and Knee Replacements in Canada released on October 25, 2006, the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that even after accounting for population changes and aging, there was an 87% increase in hip and knee replacements over a 10-year period…