Artificial intelligence is reshaping medicine faster than most health systems can keep up, and few people have a clearer view of that frontier than Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, director of the University of Toronto’s Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM). On Friday we listened with interest as Dr. Mamdani spoke candidly about …
Rare Disease Day reminds us: “rare” isn’t all that rare. Around 400 million people worldwide—more than cancer and AIDS combined—live with one of over 10,000 rare diseases, 70% of which are genetic and often start in childhood [1,2]. Although definitions vary internationally, Canada generally considers a condition rare when it affects fewer than 1 in …
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AI has moved far beyond the hype in healthcare: it’s now reading scans, drafting notes, assessing risk, and even proposing treatment options. But as the pace accelerates, so do clinicians’ concerns about skill erosion, liability, and whether AI can truly deliver on what it promises. This article opens a four-part “AI in Healthcare” series exploring …
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One of the latest health crazes to slip in alongside “peptides” (see our previous series), is the idea that powerful medicines can be repurposed as lifestyle tweaks by “microdosing”: a tiny dose of a diabetes drug to “optimize” metabolism, a fraction of a psychedelic to sharpen focus, or a whisper of a stimulant to fuel …
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The first article of this series argued that the peptide boom is not just a fringe fad but a parallel ecosystem, built by people who feel conventional medicine is too slow, too narrow, or too inaccessible for the goals they care about. In our second article, we asked how far bodily autonomy should extend when …
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