Colby Cosh: The Canadian pediatric medicine researchers who ‘made it up’

2026-03-06 - 11:13

On Tuesday morning, a fresh shockwave passed over Canadian pediatric medicine, which has had a difficult start to the year 2026. In January, the New Yorker published an investigative piece by Pulitzer-winning feature writer Ben Taub. Taub’s article describes a long-running feud between the disgraced doctor Gideon Koren, founder of the ill-fated Motherisk lab at Toronto Sick Kids, and his former colleague and co-author David Juurlink, a Sunnybrook Hospital and U of Toronto pharmacologist. Read More