“This Is Our Professional Feast”

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Growing our professional journal

31 Bienvenue au présent numéro du Journal canadien de thérapie respiratoire (JCTR). Dans ce numéro, le Journal poursuit son parcours pour renforcir, promouvoir et accroître la recherche par et pour les inhalothérapeutes. Il y a déjà quelques mois que nous avons adopté la nouvelle formule avec notre éditeur, Pulsus Group, et il est temps d’évaluer les progrès réalisés. Nous sommes déterminés à a...

"I don't think this is theoretical; this is our lives": how erasure impacts health care for transgender people.

For people who are transgender, transsexual, or transitioned (trans), access to primary, emergency, and transition-related health care is often problematic. Results from Phase I of the Trans PULSE Project, a community-based research project in Ontario, Canada, are presented. Based on qualitative data from focus groups with 85 trans community members, a theoretical framework describing how erasu...

Will our civilisation survive this century?

Roman remains: Extensive ruins such as those of the Roman colony of Thamugadi (Timgad) in modern-day Algeria remind us that civilisations can and do collapse. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/PhR61.) In 100 AD, the Roman emperor Trajan founded a new colony in Northern Africa, which he called colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi or Thamugadi for short. Planned to cover a surface of 12 hectares with its s...

Let This Be Our New Year's Pledge

2016 was a remarkable year, a year of significant advances in cancer biology and treatment, a year of social and political transition, and a year of sadness for those of us who have lost dear friends in the field of cancer research. Please join us as we share some reflections on these events. Cancer immunotherapy clearly occupies center stage in treatment research. At the clinical end, we have ...