As both a researcher and a gay man, Dr. Paul MacPherson knows all too well the stigma that gay men often face in the health-care system. Now, as the Clinical Research Chair in Gay Men’s Health at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, he’s on a mission to make quality health care more accessible to this often overlooked patient population.

What people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) learn about sex, wheelchair skills and more isn’t the same everywhere. A new program at The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre is taking on sex education and other key topics to help make sure SCI patients get the information they want and need.

Syphilis is on the rise. The sexually transmitted infection (STI) was at one time virtually wiped out. But doctors have recently noticed a dramatic increase in the number of cases in Ottawa and across Canada.