The Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program publishes a wide range of accessible "fast-facts" documents that the public can use to learn about organ donation/transplantation issues such as the shortfall in supply, consent, opt-out, alcohol abstinence, medical assistance in dying, and more. Following our conference in 2020, CHLPE drafted a number of these fast-facts. All are available at the CDTRP website.
As always, you can also find videos of all the conference panels on our YouTube channel.
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The Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program publishes a wide range of accessible "fast-facts" documents that the public can use to learn about organ donation/transplantation issues such as the shortfall in supply, consent, opt-out, alcohol abstinence, medical assistance in dying, and more. Following our conference in 2020, CHLPE drafted a number of these fast-facts. All are available at the CDTRP website.
As always, you can also find videos of all the conference panels on our YouTube channel.
Read more >
The Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program publishes a wide range of accessible "fast-facts" documents that the public can use to learn about organ donation/transplantation issues such as the shortfall in supply, consent, opt-out, alcohol abstinence, medical assistance in dying, and more. Following our conference in 2020, CHLPE drafted a number of these fast-facts. All are available at the CDTRP website.
As always, you can also find videos of all the conference panels on our YouTube channel.
Read more >
The Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program publishes a wide range of accessible "fast-facts" documents that the public can use to learn about organ donation/transplantation issues such as the shortfall in supply, consent, opt-out, alcohol abstinence, medical assistance in dying, and more. Following our conference in 2020, CHLPE drafted a number of these fast-facts. All are available at the CDTRP website.
As always, you can also find videos of all the conference panels on our YouTube channel.
Read more >
We invite applications from JD students/ JD graduates interested in pursuing a Master in Laws (LLM) project with a focus on how human life cycles are understood. We hope to hear from JD students who have an interest in health law, geriatric law, maternal health law, Indigenous law, and others. The legal and health care communities are becoming aware that their abilities to understand and respect all bodies of knowledge regarding birth, life, and death are still minimal. Co-supervised by Professors Jennifer Chandler and Signa Daum Shanks, the LLM student will have an opportunity to broaden their academic efforts in health law, Indigenous law, and the history of health sciences reinforcing colonizing attitudes about the value of Indigenous knowledge. Finding in thhe amount of $15,000 is available. (English only)
We are delighted to announce that Maureen McTeer's most recent book, FERTILITY: 40 Years of Change has been published by Irwin Law. This book explores key medical, research, and legal developments in assisted human reproduction since the birth of the first IVF baby in 1978. With keen insight, Maureen analyses how Canada has responded to the many legal and societal opportunities this foundational reproductive technology has created, such as new types of human relationships; the treatment of infertility; human embryo research; and the revolutionary possibilities for society raised by the combination of reproductive and genetic technologies, as we create, manipulate, and alter human life in the laboratory.
In recent years, some people with visual impairments have regained some degree of sight with the help of “bionic eyes”. But now the company behind the implants has stopped supporting the technology. Hear how that’s left some people in the dark, from Eliza Strickland, Senior Editor at the tech publication IEEE Spectrum, and CHLPE’s Professor Jennifer Chandler. On CBC's The Current:
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See also Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported, in IEEE Spectrum>
Raywat Deonandan is co-investigator on a new grant-funded project led by Angel Foster: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Abortion Care in Canada: A Mixed-Methods Study Dedicated to Service Delivery and Utilization. The project is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) over a two-year period. You can see Angel Foster along with Melissa Upreti, Joanna Erdman, and CHLPE's Daphne Gilbert in last week's webinar, Rights to Abortion: 2022 and Beyond.
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Recent outrage by some members of Parliament about an alleged secret collection of Canadians’ data by the Public Health Agency of Canada illustrates how misguided many are about the various kinds of personal data – and how they should and should not be used. Michael Wolfson writes in the Globe & Mail...
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See also Canadians’ health data are in a shambles…
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According to the Canadian Mental Health Association one in five Canadians is currently living with mental illness. By age 40, half of Canadians have suffered—or are suffering—some form of it. Between 2009 and 2019, there was a 60% increase in emergency department room visits and hospitalizations among adolescents. Only one in five young Canadians gets the treatment needed. The Mental Health Commission of Canada estimates that mental health problems and illnesses cost Canada about $50 billion per year. We can and must do better. Yasmin Khaliq writes in the Ottawa Citizen...
