Reducing Obesity: It Takes a Village

 An interview with Canada’s Dr. Yoni Freedhoff During my recent visit to Canada, I had a chance to meet Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an obesity expert for EvidenceNetwork.ca and an assistant professor in family medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is also the founder and medical director of Canada's Bariatric

The Great Canadian Experiment to House the Homeless

 That health is more than health care was a point I heard many times on my recent Fulbright fellowship visit to Canada. Right now in the U.S., you'd never know that though, what with all the hullaballoo over dysfunctional websites and failed efforts to get more people covered by insurance.

What the Future of American Health Care Means for Canada

 Will Obamacare impact Canadian health care policy? It’s among the many questions that were posed to Trudy Lieberman, past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and press critic for the Columbia Journalism Review. Lieberman recently completed a cross-Canada public speaking tour, as a Fulbright Scholar and guest of the Evidence