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Empowering the Invisible Heroes: Why Caregiver Support Is Critical
More resources are needed to support caregivers — especially young ones — as they balance the challenges of work, school, and caregiving.
RECENT ARTICLES
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From the NHL to Advocacy: Jim Kyte on Inclusion
The former NHL player shares how adaptation, perseverance, and self-advocacy shaped his career and continue to guide his accessibility work.
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Why a Bladder Cancer Diagnosis Shouldn’t Define A Patient’s Future
An age-related health diagnosis can feel insurmountable in the moment, but with a growing number of treatment options available for many conditions, Canadians are able…
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Improving Access to Innovative Care for Canadians Living with Autoimmune Neuromuscular Conditions
Earlier diagnosis, specialized care, investment in research, and access to innovative medicines can improve outcomes for Canadians living with gMG and CIDP. Generalized myasthenia gravis…
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From Victim to Voice to Impact
In the aftermath of Canada’s tainted-blood tragedy, people with hemophilia, transfusion recipients and their families were often described as victims. I came into that community…
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Bladder Cancer Canada: Creating Connection, Inspiring Hope
Although considered an older man’s disease, bladder cancer can happen to anyone. Bladder Cancer Canada helps ease the journey. In the late spring of 2023,…
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New National Report Card Reveals Major Gaps in Access to Cochlear Implants Across Canada
Live More, Hear More: Canada’s First Adult Cochlear Implant Report Card (2026) calls for urgent action to improve equitable, timely access to life-changing hearing care.…
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How Autism Canada Helps Foster Communities Where Everyone Participates
Creating accessible schools, workplaces, and communities starts with recognizing and removing barriers to inclusion. Awareness can change minds, but accessibility changes lives. For many Autistic…
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Want a Career in Health? Consider Public Health
Public health offers meaningful careers across many professions, all focused on prevention, protection, and improving the health and well-being of communities. Many people choose a…
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How Improving Canada’s Approach to Clinical Trials Is a Win For All Canadians
This Canadian charity is highlighting the role the government must play in developing a stronger, improved clinical trials ecosystem across Canada. Few words change someone’s…
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Got a BadGut? Learn to manage symptoms from gum to bum
Find support groups, articles, videos, infographs, reports, recipes, and more to support your bowel health, at badgut.org Do you regularly suffer from uncomfortable symptoms in…
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Why GSK Is Changing How We Fight Disease
From R&D to collaborations that help translate scientific breakthroughs into tangible outcomes, GSK Canada is contributing to a stronger health care system. Canada’s health care…
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Canada’s Invisible Care Workforce: Why Family Caregivers Are Holding the System Together
From long-term care to hospitals and home settings, unpaid family caregivers are filling critical gaps in Canada’s healthcare system — often at the cost of…
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From Patient to Advocate: Shaping Kidney Care in Canada
The Kidney Foundation of Canada elevates patient voices to better inform its programs and advocacy. François-René Dussault, 56, lives with Alport syndrome, a hereditary illness…
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Accelerating Cell Therapies: Canada’s Role in Reshaping theFuture of Type 1 Diabetes Care
Breakthrough T1D has a global plan to speed access to cell therapies that could transform life for people with type 1 diabetes. Imagine you lost…
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Vision Care Gaps Put Canadian Lupus Patients at Risk
Canadians with lupus taking hydroxychloroquine face inequitable access to life-saving eye screening, risking irreversible vision loss and inequity in care. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, sometimes called just lupus)…
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Pharmacists CAN: Let’s stop holding pharmacists back
Pharmacists CAN is advocating for legislative reforms to empower Canadian pharmacists to practice to the full extent of their training. Across Canada, pharmacists are among…
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Research Discoveries Lead to Better Outcomes for Specific Type of Brain Cancer
An innovative oral therapy represents the first major brain cancer advancement in nearly 25 years for a group of brain tumours known as low-grade gliomas. Sustained research is needed to drive…
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Leading the Charge in Pharmacy Innovation, A Conversation with Dr. Debbie Kelly
Dr. Debbie Kelly, 2025 Pharmacist of the Year, shares insights on evolving practice, systemic primary care needs, and empowering pharmacists. The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA)…