Lots of people have lots of worries about catching COVID — but how is it really transmitted? To find out, guest host Dr. Peter Nord, chief medical officer of Medcan, interviews two experts: Queen’s University medical school infectious disease chair Dr. Gerald Evans, and Rutgers University virologist Dr. Emanuel Goldman.

As travel restrictions ease, what special considerations should you take the next time you find yourself on a plane? How can you mitigate infection risk when flying? To investigate, guest host Dr. Aisha Khatib interviews Dr. Vincent Poirier, a medical advisor to both Air Canada and Air Transat.

Exercising and eating well but it doesn’t make a difference? Registered dietitian Leslie Beck steps in as guest host to describe eight common calorie blunders that could be keeping you from losing weight—and provides tips on how to solve them.

Maybe you haven't been on a sports team for years. But as we embark on this pandemic-inspired societal reboot, maybe you’re thinking of taking something up. So which sport should you pursue? What's the best sport for long-term health and fitness? Host Shaun Francis investigates.

There’s an international effort to get people to download contact tracing apps. To help listeners understand why they’re so important, Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis talks to the University of Waterloo math Ph.D. candidate who pioneered the technology.

At 55, Deedee Moscoe looked around one day and realized—her life needed a reboot. Caring for her aging parents left her without any time for her career—or herself. With host Shaun Francis, Deedee explores a typically human dilemma with extraordinary honesty and humour.

By devoting so much of our attention to stopping the spread of COVID-19, with lockdowns, with physical distancing measures, by closing borders and many businesses, are we ignoring the possibility we could be harming population health in other ways?

What’s Canada’s objective for COVID-19 management? To eradicate the virus altogether? To contain it until we have a vaccine? And how does that objective affect our U.S. border strategy? Irfan Dhalla is the physician challenging policy makers to think about such issues.

Front-line COVID ER doc David Carr speaks to host Shaun Francis about the mistakes we’ve made, what it’s like to tell someone they’re infected with COVID, and the dangerous healthcare resource crunch we’re facing with flu season around the corner. 

Exercise is the most important thing you can do to help yourself cope. But the pandemic makes it difficult for us to get physical activity. We spoke with brain health expert Dr. Jennifer Heisz to hear easy-to-follow tips that use physical activity to decrease stress.

Most jurisdictions in North America are nowhere near the ideal amount of testing. To learn what’s going on, host Shaun Francis spoke to one of the most outspoken of the experts on the issue, Dr. Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, a clinical epidemiologist.

Dr. Jonathan Danson is a clinical psychologist who believes the pandemic’s grand reboot of routines can trigger a paradox of choice for high achievers. Shaun talks with Dr. Danson about what to do next.

Why do some large gatherings of people become superspreader events, while some do not? Jonathan Kay is a Canadian journalist who recently wrote a fascinating article on the science of superspreaders. His insights may be able to help all of us return to work more safely.

What’s to come? Dr. Kai Singbartl, the chair of infection control and prevention at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Medcan’s chief medical officer, Dr. Peter Nord, talk about when to except a COVID-19 vaccine.

How does one cope when work demands happen alongside family demands? And what’s more important, quantity or quality of time spent with children? Stew Friedman, author of Parents who Lead, has the answers.

Our relationship with food has changed since social distancing began. We’re eating in more. We're worrying whether food will be available. And we’re indulging more. Here are Medcan’s two in-house food experts: Leslie Beck, nutrition columnist for The Globe and Mail, and Jason Smidt, the executive chef of Nourish by Medcan, our food delivery service.

Epidemiologists are researchers who study disease outbreaks—how they happen and how long they’ll last. One of the world’s foremost, Dr. David Fisman, explains how long we’ll have to live with social distancing, when life will return to normal—and what happens next.

We’re all dealing with anxiety lately. What do we do if things start to spiral? How do we manage our thoughts when the future is so unpredictable? What if it all starts to seem a little too much? An authentic and grounded discussion with Medcan’s director of mental health, Dr. Gina Di Giulio, a clinical psychologist.

What’s to come as this pandemic develops? How far might governments go to prevent the spread of the coronavirus? The problem is, we just don’t know. So to confront some concrete scenarios, we interviewed an on-the-ground observer in Spain, another Western democracy, but one with 22 times the number of COVID-19 cases.

Even if social distancing has you trapped inside, exercise is important for immune function and mood. It’s also the secret to a good night’s sleep. Here, Medcan Director of Fitness Stephen Salzmann provides listeners with the basic principles that go into any workout session.