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October 24, 2018

Her son's stroke puts a Nunavut doctor on the other side of care

Family doctor Madeleine Cole works at a 25-bed hospital in Iqaluit doing emergency medicine and delivering babies. She also flies in to remote Nunavut villages to run clinics for the largely Inuit population. But last year, Madeleine found herself on the receiving end of medicine. During an idyllic…

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April 6, 2023

Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on autistic girls

A graphic novel for kids and a memoir detail the isolation of growing up as a girl with autism.

August 19, 2013

Poor health care a factor in early deaths

A 2013 inquiry into the deaths of 247 adults and children with intellectual disability in England and Wales found women with intellectual...

June 25, 2014

Does disability make you a less worthy transplant recipient?

Two little girls with genetic conditions that include intellectual disability needed a life-saving organ transplant.One, in Philadelphia,...

Melanie Penner, MD FRCP(C)

Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Assistant Professor (Status), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Associate Faculty, Institute of Medical Sciences

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