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CMAJ drops paywall
Starting today, all new Canadian Medical Association Journal content is now freely available online, with older material becoming available on March 1, 2020. Previously, CMAJ research…
How hospitals can protect themselves from cyber attack
Hospitals and healthcare systems have become a major target for hackers. The recent announcement that LifeLabs, Canada’s largest medical testing company, paid a ransom to retrieve…
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future
After years of writing about scientific papers, I’m actually a co-author on one – about the future of the scientific paper. Consider for a moment the…
To Conserve Species, Traditional Local Knowledge and Science Can Complement Each Other
Estimates of animal populations made by local residents and field scientists are similar. Thais Morcatty had a problem. The ecologist at the Mamiraua Institute in Brazil…
‘Rediscovered’ toad was known to Colombian locals for decades
A critically endangered harlequin toad, known as the starry night toad, has been documented by biologists for the first time since 1991 in the mountains of…
Sailing around the world for ocean plastic
Canadian scientist Sheri Bastien discusses her involvement in eXXpedition, an all-female expedition to study ocean plastic. Sheri Bastien is a Canadian public health researcher at the…