Grim realities and stark contrasts: What matters for health prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/g...

A ballot issue every parent should consider: their children canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/28/a... by @egruenwoldt.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

(1/3)💡CHSCY Investigator Feature💡 Meet Emily Gruenwoldt, a principal investigator on the 2023 #CHSCY! @egruenwoldt.bsky.social

(1/3) 🔎 #Research Feature: The AYM team is working on a study to follow up #Canadian children and youth in 2023, with pre-pandemic data from the 2019 Canadian Longitudinal Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY) by Statistics Canada.

Remarkable things are happening in children’s health. 🎈 Join us in Ottawa April 14-15 as we celebrate major milestones and legacy leaders from coast to coast and across the continuum of care. Four days left to register: lnkd.in/eBDwyKjq

Vaccines do not, cannot, and have never caused autism. www.iflscience.com/vaccines-do-...

Free open access needs to be the norm for Canadian research

“There's nothing more Canadian than our commitment to care for each other.” – @jossreimer.bsky.social This week’s #CMAHealthSummit was a strong reminder that collaboration is integral to making change in Canadian health. We hope to see that from federal leaders in this upcoming federal election.

When you surround yourself with positive people, the sky is the limit. So fortunate to be surrounded by incredible humans, motivated to think big and DO big, every single day. Today I received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for "having made a significant contribution to Canada." 🇨🇦

#Measles is re-emerging in Ontario. Here’s what you need to know to protect you and your family, by @kkirkup.bsky.social @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @egruenwoldt.bsky.social #vaccination

A trade war impacts us all, including physicians and our broader health system. This is a crucial time to talk about how we can break down labour and mobility barriers for doctors within Canada, to strengthen our system when it needs it most. www.cma.ca/latest-stori...

From Ontario to Texas, every #measles infection is a preventable tragedy, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination

“We are back to basics. Back to fighting for fundamentals upon which pediatrics was founded. We are fighting for America’s kids in unprecedented and unimagined times.” Deeply troubling sentiments from the American Academy of Pediatrics at an event convening pediatric leaders from across the USA.

Lean in, Canada! 🇨🇦 ❄️

First time ever hanging a flag for #nationalflagday. Sign of the times? #TeamCanada

"We have to make it so that health equity is not seen as a side show or an add-on; it's the main event. If you care about health and you care about children, you must care about health equity." Dave Chokshi Great listen 🎧 : nemourswellbeyond.org/episode/chil...

Super Bowl Sunday. But without the Football. 🎿🚡

Healthcare. It’s the number one voter issue in the Ontario election: poll @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social @nanos #healthcare www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Fellow Canadians! Do you want to beef up the #Canadian Content in your Bluesky experience? #cdnpoli Here are 2 extremely completist ways to do it: @nicktsergas.ca made starter packs of literally EVERY CANADIAN ON BLUESKY - links to all in the description (to follow folks) go.bsky.app/HqmVU7Z

#BuyCanadian @cfl.ca @ottawaredblacks.com 🇨🇦🏈

Children & youth are put at unnecessary risk when they do not have access to pediatric medications or child-friendly formulations. This is not a challenge unique to TB patients, but sadly quite a common occurrence for Canada's kids. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Pediatricians Try New Tactics to Win Over Vaccine Skeptics. As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots, by Melinda Wenner Moyer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w... via @nytimes.com #vaccination #scicomm #infodemic

Great piece by Dr @ripudamanminhas.bsky.social - doc in Toronto - about who is most affected by misinformation healthydebate.ca/2025/01/topi...

How problematic is the Alberta report on COVID? Very. Recommendations embrace misinformation & run counter to a vast & diverse body of evidence. Policy analysis is nonsensical & displays a lack of knowledge about law or ethics. This is science in Alberta? Dark Age 2.0.

When one in five Canadians do not have access to a family doctor, it's no wonder people look for medical information online. But with the rise of misinformation, this online info can do more harm than good. We need to address this critical issue now. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Patients crammed into 'every single nook and cranny' as respiratory season hits hospitals hard, by @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n... via @ottawacitizen.com #influenza #RSV #COVID19

Social media is the new public health frontline. Let’s treat it that way. We must give influencers tools and training to deliver accurate health information. harvardpublichealth.org/tech-innovat...

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

Looking forward to this discussion focusing on challenges and opportunities to measurably improve children's health! January 27th, 12-1p ET Free Registration! deloitte.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

SKIP is pleased to announce that @egruenwoldt.bsky.social and Justina Marianayagam have agreed to serve as Co-Chairs of SKIP’s new governance structure. Details of the new governance structure and its members will be confirmed and shared over the coming months—stay tuned!

So grateful our paths cross 8 years ago 💙 Congratulations on ten incredible years @hollandbloorview.ca!

#VaccinesWork 6 Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... Measles Diphtheria Tetanus Mumps Rubella Polio: "In the U.S, vaccines drove paralytic polio cases down from more than 21,000 in 1952 to just one in 1993."

Why are kids sick all the time? For many families, this has been a challenging fall, by Lyne Filiatrault, Arijit Chakravarty, T. Ryan Gregory canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/01/11/w... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca #pediatrics #RSV #influenza #COVID19

In Canada, about 75% of the estimated 3M Canadians with rare diseases are children, and many of these kids require significant medical care. This announcement below is great news for children and families who often pay out of pocket for access to new or existing therapeutics. 👇🏻

🚨Critical issue! Report: Science Misinformation, Its Origins and Impacts www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/12... Evidence clear: "exposure to misinformation about science may lead to misbeliefs which, in turn, have the potential for causing harm at the individual & collective levels..."

The emergency department is the last place any parent wants to spend the holidays. Thank you to all the amazing staff and physicians working around the clock to care for Canada’s sick kids (and their parents). ❤️

Her changing body, and politics, sent a #transgender preteen on a quest. As doctors and politicians debate puberty blockers, access has been in flux. Here’s what that meant for 11-year-old Maria, by Anthony Faiola www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... via @washingtonpost.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👇🏻

Incredible new science helping us understand one (of likely many) genetic causes of autism. Bravo @sickkidsvs.bsky.social ⭐️ www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? NO! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h... @apoorvanyt.bsky.social "...immune reactions produced by vaccines are 'minuscule' compared with those that children experience on a daily basis" "Overloading" rhetoric = 🚩red flag for scientific illiteracy🚩

IWK Health Centre seeing uptick in walking pneumonia cases this year Emergency department chief says Mycoplasma pneumoniae tends to spike every three to seven years www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stollery Children's Hospital may have to pause admissions due to lack of staff Doctors say if pause goes ahead, effects will be felt in emergency room www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

6.5 million Canadians don't have a family doctor, and doc numbers are falling. How can we address the crisis in primary care? Q+A w/ Dr. Alison Carleton, Dr. Danielle Martin, @picardonhealth.bsky.social, by @mattgalloway.bsky.social (scroll to 22 minutes) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-.... via @cbcnews.ca

From @healthydebate.bsky.social: One thing experts wish for in 2025? healthydebate.ca/2024/12/topi... Me: "Since I study health misinformation, my wish is kind of obvious. More truth! More good evidence! Less tolerance for pseudoscience. And way less sanewashing, please!" OK, that's four.

And under the tree, a family doctor for all healthydebate.ca/2024/12/topi...

Primary care. EVERYONE is talking about it. There’s a reason. It is the foundation to family health and wellness, and underpins community, tertiary and continuing care. Primary care is the glue that holds our systems together. ChildHealthCan’s latest podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/1374217/epis...

Some great tips in here from Justina Marianayagam, MD and Samina Ali on how to help your child handle a visit to the emergency department. #ItDoesntHaveToHurt @kidsinpain.bsky.social www.healthing.ca/wellness/opi...

Opinion: If you need the ER this holiday season, don’t fret – but do read this first /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Worth watching 👀👇🏻

Children's Healthcare Canada strongly opposes proposed legislation in Alberta that threatens the health children and youth. Standing up for kids, and their right to accessible and ESSENTIAL healthcare services is easy. Please read and share. www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/en/news/newl...