Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation
My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt
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You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Depression
The best way to heal your mind is by paying attention to your body
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Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless
Doctors are looking to an experimental treatment for help
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Don’t Get Sick in Quebec
What happens when a government decides to prioritize language laws over nurses and doctors?
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Family Doctors’ Burnout Is about More than Their Workload
Many physicians believe there needs to be a reset in how they treat patients—and their own well-being
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The Lobby Group That Owns the Conversation around Assisted Deaths
Dying with Dignity Canada played a huge part in the legalization of MAID. Few have the resources to oppose them
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In-Between Days
First in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer
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Everyone’s ADHD Is Different
I’ve learned that medicine alone doesn’t do all the work that people with ADHD need
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Why Women Hate the Pill
What birth control teaches us about the failure—and future—of women’s health care
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Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy?
We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates
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