🩺 The 10,000 genomes missing from medicine
Good morning! Navigating winter streets and sidewalks can leave people a little salty. Especially when it’s… not. This winter, some eastern Ontario municipalities are rationing road salt, stretching dwindling supplies by mixing them with sand and settling for slush. Canada depends on these pavement pop rocks, despite their impact on the environment and infrastructure. Why […]
Postcall Crossword – February 4th, 2026
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🩺 The anti-aging vaccine?
Good morning! Leave it to the French to turn the global “infodemic” into a metaphor. After watching false health claims spread faster than daycare-centre lice, French officials turned to a familiar framework: early detection, monitoring, and intervention. The result: a new national plan that treats misinformation as a public-health risk. Their “infovigilance” system aims spot […]
Postcall Crossword – January 28th, 2026
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🩺 What 47,000 spleens just taught us
Good morning! Ask patients how much they drink alcohol and you’ll often get a number that sounds… calculated. But maybe it’s not. According to a new CAMH report, since drinks have gotten stronger or larger, many underestimate how much they imbibe. CAMH also found diverging trends: the overall decline in drinking alcohol continues, but, since […]
Postcall Crossword – January 21st, 2026
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🩺 The GLP-1 fine print you aren’t reading
Good morning! Everyone knows the proper way to enjoy a bag of chips: set it within arm’s reach, nutrition facts facing away, and remind yourself that potatoes are vegetables. But that little ritual is about to get harder. Starting this year, Canada is rolling out mandatory front-of-package warnings on many foods — a black-and-white symbol […]
Postcall Crossword – January 14th, 2026
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🩺 AI just rewrote the MS playbook
Good morning! Historically, brains have been like karaoke rooms: noisy, chaotic, but mostly private. But that privacy barrier is thinning. Researchers just reported they’ve built a paper-thin, postage-stamp-size brain implant that curves to the brain’s surface and transmits recordings to AI. The brain-computer interface decodes the data to identify movement, sensory input, certain brain activity, […]
Postcall Crossword – January 7th, 2026
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🩺 The 6 stories doctors read most this year
Good morning! It’s the last day of 2025 — a time for optimism, buying discounted planners, and delaying medical attention until January. It’s also when we look back at which topics drew the most attention. This year, Postcallers gravitated toward the practical and the intriguing, stopping by acrobatic gorillas and zucchini noodles along the way. […]
Postcall Crossword – December 31st, 2025
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🩺 What the holidays really do to doctors
Good morning! If you’re opening this between leftover turkey and a half-finished chart, welcome. The holidays have a way of changing everything around medicine without changing medicine itself. Clinics slow, staffing thins, consults stretch — but symptoms don’t take time off. Data shows that while emergency departments often see lower volumes on Christmas Day, risk […]
Postcall Crossword – December 24th, 2025
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🩺 What a marathon does to the heart
SPONSORED BY Good morning! In the US, a black box warning is supposed to be rare and based on solid evidence. Yet reports say the FDA intends to add this ominous label to COVID vaccines — a decision that could change behaviour faster than any guideline could. Luckily, US health officials’ latest attack on science […]
Postcall Crossword – December 17th, 2025
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🩺 Why your nose works in shifts
Good morning! Here’s something your patients probably won’t ask, but now you can’t un-think: why do we have 2 nostrils instead of 1 big opening? The answer: the nasal cycle. One side takes in more air, filtering, warming, humidifying. The other takes in less, recovering moisture. After a few hours, the dominant side switches. Not […]
Postcall Crossword – December 10th, 2025
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🩺 Wait… adolescence lasts until 32?
Good morning! There’s a new HIV cure case — and it’s another curveball. A man underwent a standard stem-cell transplant to treat leukemia, and as part of that procedure, he received donor stem cells that weren’t genetically resistant to HIV — unlike previous “cures” that relied on the rare CCR5 mutation. Yet, years later, he’s […]
Postcall Crossword – December 3rd, 2025
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🩺 Fish oil's redemption: 43% risk drop
Good morning! The CDC just quietly edited its autism-and-vaccines page, and the new language suddenly treats settled science like an unresolved cliffhanger. Decades of data showing no link between vaccines and autism have been softened into careful caveats, and even CDC scientists say they weren’t warned before the change. Vaccine experts are now pushing back […]