Last Wednesday, the editors of the leading medical journals around the world made a proposal that could change medical science forever. The editor's stance, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is that researchers must make...
Check out our new Cochrane review: Probiotics for preventing urinary tract infections in adults and children. Conclusions: "No significant benefit was demonstrated for probiotics compared with placebo or no treatment, but a benefit cannot be ruled out...
UBC researchers issued a warning this week about the limitations of drugs commonly used to treat chronic pain. The Therapeutics Initiative’s latest bulletin for British Columbia’s prescribing physicians and pharmacists focuses on four drugs — gabapentin,...
Chronic pain (at times presumed to be “neuropathic” in origin) is a common problem in clinical practice. It is now well recognized that the results of drug treatment are more often disappointing than not.1 Despite this, from 2005-2014 the number...