Dr. Barry Dworkin

  • Sunday House Call, #518, January , 2015: Who Da Thunk It? Your Favourite Hollywood Celebrity is Also Your Doctor!

    Sunday House Call, #518, January , 2015:  Who Da Thunk It? Your Favourite Hollywood Celebrity is Also Your Doctor!   In his new book, “Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash”, University of Alberta Professor Timothy Caulfield argues that celebrity culture has emerged as one of our society’s most pernicious…

  • Sunday House Call, #463, November 10, 2013: Polio and measles march forward thanks to war and anti-vaccine advocats

    Sunday House Call, #463,  November 10, 2013   Topics today include: The spread of measles and polio in the world, carpal tunnel syndrome, Raynaud’s Phenomenon, cataract surgery moves out of hospitals, a viral infection in an 89 year-old woman, heart murmur, and pain after a shingles infection. Measles cases in Wales triple in two weeks…

  • Answering the call: Special H1N1 Edition of CFRA's Afternoon Edition

    Afternoon Edition – H1N1 Special Rob Snow and Dr Barry Dworkin host a four hour special on H1N1 answering your questions about the virus and the vaccine to protect against it. [display_podcast] References: Public Health Agency of Canada – National Advisory Committee On Immunization: Influenza Vaccine Thimerosal in Vaccines Thimerosal and Vaccine Safety Squalene information…

  • Examining claims of vaccine harm

    As the focus of attention turns to the H1N1 outbreak that is now occurring across the country, the public faces an array of information sources that will influence their opinion about vaccination. There have been many claims and critiques about the H1N1 vaccine and it has become a springboard to envelop other vaccines and vaccination…

  • H1N1 vaccine questions and evidenced-based answers

    With the H1N1 flu season upon us, the need to provide credible evidenced-based information to the public is an essential in order to answer questions and concerns. Dr. Isra Levy, the City of Ottawa’s Chief Medical Offer of Health and Dr. Nadine Sicard, Associate Medical Offer of Health and member of the National Advisory Committee…

  • Cancer vaccine research

    Original broadcast date: July 19, 2009 The understanding of a disease process or pathophysiology is crucial to the development of innovative ways to find effective therapies to treat it. On Sunday House Call we have been following various avenues in cancer research that continue to reveal insights into the protein chemistry, genetics and immune response…

  • Traveller's diarrhea vaccine in development

    Original broadcast date: May 18, 2009 Of great concern to many travelers is the prevention of infectious diseases such as typhoid, hepatitis A and B, malaria, and enterotoxigenic E. coli among others. Another common form of traveler’s diarrhea caused by the bacteria campylobacter jejuni is becoming resistant to antibiotic therapy. A research group from the…

  • A plea for clear language on vaccine safety

    In an editorial by Dr. Noni MacDonald and the Globe and Mail’s Andre Picard entitled “A plea for clear language on vaccine safety”, a case is made for plain English and more direct language when discussing and interpreting research findings and clinical recommendations. As outlined in his book “Bad Science” in a recent interview on…

  • Bad Science

    Original broadcast date: March 29, 2009 If there is one quote that epitomizes the plethora of ideas expressed in physician and Guardian columnist Dr. Ben Goldacre’s book bad science, it is this from paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, Steven Jay Gould: “ When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their…