Cycling, cancer, doping, and danger
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The photograph in the Globe and Mail was impressive. Thousands on the Ride to Conquer Cancer bike...
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Its not just the football. Sports docs watch the World Cup medical stories with great interest—which players are injured, what happened and how they are managed. Luis Suárez, suddenly infamous, scored...
View ArticleLessons on healthy ageing from the 15th FINA World Masters Swimming Competition
Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ I’ve come back to competitive swimming in the last couple of years, as a Master. Although I enjoyed a youth spent in the water, I can't fully identify with...
View ArticleWhy Jamaicans dominate sprinting and other wisdom from the BASEM/FESM...
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, and recently in Edinburgh for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine conference...
View ArticleOn the striking downward trend in injuries associated with alpine skiing
Martin Burtscher is Professor at the Department of Sport Science, Medical Section, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria Gerhard Ruedl is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sport Science at...
View ArticleExercise for older athletes: is there such a thing as too much?
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Some years ago, out walking along the river, I met an ex-athlete friend . “I gave up running at...
View ArticleCan you get out of your chair unaided?
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The newspaper story about our research focused on the proportion of older people without...
View ArticleLessons most runners learn too late (even doctors)
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Couch potatoes say that you never see a happy jogger, and they might be right. Too many runners...
View ArticleHow to equip policymakers to advance the physical activity agenda
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. We publishing the wrong research and funding too many of the wrong studies. This was the general...
View ArticleHow to build brain resilience
Larry W. Chambers is Research Director at McMaster University's Niagara Regional Campus, School of Medicine Eric Larson committed his career to researching how to delay and prevent Alzheimer’s...
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