Read selected SPECIAL REPORTS by André Picard
Breathing new life into medicare
Canada's health-care system has turned 40, ANDRÉ PICARD writes, and it is
suffering all the telltale signs of a midlife crisis
Saturday, November 23, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
MEDICURE: FIXING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
Is gold-plated health care worth the cost?
PART ONE: ACCESSIBILITY: FRENCH OBSESSED BY UNLIMITED CHOICE. In France, waiting for hours in emergency is unthinkable,
ANDRÉ PICARD writes from Paris. The French boast the World Health Oganization's top ranking for the best health system,
but they are finding that accessibility comes with a price.
Monday, December 2, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
MEDICURE: FIXING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
Community medical clinics 'are the best-kept secret' in the health-care system
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD OTTAWA
MEDICURE: FIXING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
The demand for services versus the supply of cash
Quebec's disastrous experience is a cautionary tale for pharmacare architects
Thursday, December 5, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
MEDICURE: FIXING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
Accountability and planning on health-care disabled list Canadians know how much is spent, but its effectiveness is clouded, ANDRÉ PICARD writes
Saturday, December 7, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
WHAT YOU EAT: Winner of the Canadian Nurses Association Award of Excellence for Health Care Reporting -- 2002
What You Eat
Healthy diet eludes Canadians
Friday, July 5, 2002
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
ANDRÉ PICARD
SATURDAY SPECIAL:
How top public health officials underestimated the threat of West Nile virus while 12 died and 1,000 others were treated
for the disease
Saturday, March 1, 2003
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
PERSONAL FOCUS: AGING
Exercising the brain may keep memory alive
Baby boomers desperate to stave off dementia are following a program of keeping the mind and body active
Saturday, February 1, 2003
ANDRÉ PICARD
Martin lends polio experience to charity
Monday, May 27, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER,
The Globe and Mail
Canada 2005?
The sanatoriums are long gone, but tuberculosis is not. It
remains, public health reporter ANDRÉ PICARD warns, one of the
world's great killers. Drug-resistant TB costs a fortune to fight
and even wealthy nations aren't immune to a serious outbreak. 'It
could happen in Toronto, if we're not careful,' one expert says
Saturday, May 18, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
Bypassing their MDs, Canadians go on-line for drugs
Saturday, March 2, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Myth of the 'sad old lady' fading
Help has been scarce for depression if it
develops in old age, ANDRÉ PICARD finds
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
ANDRÉ PICARD
Where the mission is survival
Botswana bears deadly brunt of AIDS,
but hope glimmers amid 'national sadness'
Saturday, December 1, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
Breast-feeding mothers infected with HIV can pass
on the disease to their children. Researchers in
Africa are looking for a solution
Saturday, December 8, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
Company joins war on AIDS for the sake of the bottom line
Monday, December 10, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
Canadian expert doubts anthrax case can be solved
Thursday, November 1, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Smoking deaths could hit 1 billion
André Picard, Public Health Reporter
The Globe and Mail
HALIFAX
October 23, 2001
Cancer linked to night shifts
By ANDRÉ PICARD PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Saturday, July 21, 2001
FATTEST OR FITTEST? PART 1
Fat City - We have become a nation of couch potatoes addicted to our
doughnuts, Quarter Pounders and French fries. We are among
the biggest eaters in the world and nowhere is the problem
more apparent than St. Catharines, Ont., the fattest city
in the country. 'For God's sake, we are poisoning ourselves
with food,' an expert on nutrition told The Globe's ANDRÉ PICARD,
who went to the Garden City to find out why residents
are eating themselves to death
Saturday, July 21, 2001
FATTEST OR FITTEST?
'Healthy' farmer may be myth, poll finds
Saturday, July 21, 2001
FATTEST & FITTEST
Fit with vitality in Victoria
At almost double the national average, 36.4 per cent of city's residents are active
Monday, July 23, 2001
FATTEST AND FITTEST
Bring back gym, schools urged
Monday, July 23, 2001
FATTEST AND FITTEST
Cities reveal split personalities
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
FATTEST and FITTEST
Pudgy boomers face diabetes threat
Obesity rate has made 'sweet sickness' one of the fastest-growing health problems
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
FATTEST & FITTEST
'Fat tax' idea gets mixed reviews
Nearly half of Canadians support extra fees on junk food and soft drinks, poll shows
Wednesday, July 25, 2001
FATTEST & FITTEST
Americans revive ParticipAction
Deal from Centers for Disease Control
extends life of renowned fitness agency
Thursday, July 26, 2001
FATTEST & FITTEST
Despite health benefits, men don't eat vegetables
Thursday, July 26, 2001
Read more at the www.ctv.ca/news and www.theglobeandmail.com.
THE PLAGUE AT 20: A SPECIAL REPORT
Didn't someone say the war was over?
12 Canadians will be infected with AIDS today.
That's almost 5,000 of us by next Canada Day
and the global toll this year will top 5.3 million
Saturday, June 30, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
Public Health Reporter
The Globe and Mail
Affliction's echo stalks polio survivors
Painful syndrome expected to affect 20 million people, research predicts
By André Picard
The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
Banned for chickens, prescribed to women
'Miracle' drug DES still casts a long shadow 30 years
after doctors stopped giving it to expectant moms.
Many of their children died from cancer or are infertile.
Now there is growing evidence that a third generation may
face the same problems.
Saturday, May 12, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
Sisters launch suit against drug maker Pair hope claim against maker of DES will push other Canadian women to sue.
Saturday, May 12, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
AIDS now strikes at older age group
Monday, April 9, 2001
ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
AIDS epidemic creates generation of orphans
Now more than 13 million worldwide, number of children who lose at least one parent to the disease could be around 40 million by 2010
Friday, July 14, 2000
ANDRÉ PICARD
When disabled kids grow up, aging parents look ahead and worry. But there is a way to ease the load.
08/07/1998
The Globe and Mail
Worldwide killer no longer the great equalizer
Third World has little reason to celebrate medical
advances in battle against AIDS as gap between haves
and have-nots grows, MDs say
Saturday, July 4, 1998
BY ANDRÉ PICARD
The Globe and Mail
A legendary killer allowed to get away
Once almost extinct, Africa's dreaded sleeping sickness will claim 350,000 lives this year. Saving each would cost just few hundred dollars, but pharmaceutical companies want to halt production of the drugs because there just isn't enough profit for them, public health reporter ANDRÉ PICARD reports from Uganda.
A price tag on prevention
A vaccine widely available in the U.S. is a proven fighter of early-childhood pneumonia and meningitis. But as ANDRÉ PICARD writes, its potential use in Canada is sparking a fierce debate.
Danger in the playground
New parks have grass and trees instead of plastic structures. After all, kids just want to run and jump.
STANDING THEIR GROUND
The Ouje-Bougoumou are fighting a decision that rendered the Cree band
non-existent in the eyes of the federal bureaucracy
Forgotten, but not gone
New killers now stalk Rwanda
Disease, injuries, crop failures,
land mines threaten country's future
Tuesday, July 12, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Rwandan leader lived in splendour
POMP /Reporters who were given a tour of the president's
palace saw plenty of luxury and almost as much irony
Wednesday, July 13, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
One woman's scars in Rwanda
SURVIVOR / Most of her family are dead, but
she says: 'We're alive, so we can't complain'
Thursday, July 14, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Orphans face struggle on two fronts
THE NEXT GENERATION / Having seen their parents killed,
children of Rwanda's warfare are threatened by AIDS
Friday, July 15, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Rwandan exodus swamps aid efforts
'There has never been a movement of refugees
like this in history'
Saturday, July 16, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Refugees flood onto barren land
RWANDA / In the largest camp of its kind in history,
Rwandans occupy territory with no water or vegetation
Monday, July 18, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Defeated Rwandans talk of new war
KILLERS / Young Hutu men think nothing of having murdered
as many as 80 Tutsis and seem ready to do it again
Tuesday, July 19, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Rwandan rebels declare victory
Refugee situation 'apocalyptic'
Tuesday, July 19, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Rwandan refugee crisis deepens as more flee
May not be 'anyone left' by week's end
Wednesday, July 20, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
UN slow off mark in Rwanda
Private aid agencies shoulder
burden of aid to refugees facing death
Friday, July 22, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
World accused by its own silence
RWANDA / Tardiness of refugee aid operations
raises questions about Western governments
Monday, July 25, 1994
BY ANDRE PICARD
The Globe and Mail
Montreal Chilling look at priest's death in Rwanda
Tuesday, April 11, 1995
Andre Picard
Baril's role in Rwanda faulted
Belgian senator calls chief of defence
staff a key to UN's failure to prevent genocide
Monday, September 22, 1997
BY ANDRE PICARD
Quebec Bureau
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY: PART 1
Crees, Quebec in power struggle over massive James Bay project
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY: PART 2
There's poison in picture-perfect Chisasibi
Has Hydro-Quebec given Crees a fighting chance or a death blow?
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY: PART 3
U.S. customers likely to buy despite environmental worries
NATIVE ENTERPRISES BUILDING FOUNDATION FOR ARCTIC NATION
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY: PART 4
Freshwater seal symbolizes fears for wildlife
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY
Utility's nation-building potential disputed by Hydro-Quebec critics
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY: Part 5
Future of massive project depends on environmental review
JAMES BAY A POWER PLAY
Grassroots movement, lobby groups oppose Hydro-Quebec
sales in U.S.
THE EX Excitement
When CNE workers step right up, first-day crowds aren't far behind
ANDRE PICARD
08/18/1988
The Globe and Mail
THE EX
Treatment of animals at the CNE prompts charges, angry denials
ANDRE PICARD
08/19/1988
THE EX
Goddess of wheel to light up CNE
ANDRE PICARD
08/20/1988
THE EX
Fair counts on young set
ANDRE PICARD
08/23/1988
THE EX
Beautiful blond boomerang buff flings sticks and dispels the myths
ANDRE PICARD
08/24/1988
THE EX
See mayors in drag, daredevil dogs--and scalpers
ANDRE PICARD
08/27/1988
THE EX
From seductive to blunt, hawkers' sales pitches aim to open your wallet
ANDRE PICARD
08/31/1988
THE EX
A farmer laments that it's only fools who keep returning
ANDRE PICARD
09/02/1988
THE EX
Tackiness part of appeal 'Grand Old Lady' survives doomsayers
ANDRE PICARD
09/06/1988
