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Greg Carney, Jason D Kim, Cait O'Sullivan, Wade Thompson, Ken Bassett, Josh Levin, Colin R Dormuth. Treatment pattern trends of medications for type 2 diabetes in British Columbia, Canada. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2022;10:e002995. DOI: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2022-002995 Abstract Introduction Several new oral drug classes for...

Bringing Best Evidence to Clinicians: Saturday, October 15, 2022 from 08:30-12:20 h, PDT Have you ever considered participating in one of the TI’s annual courses?  This year we are presenting our popular Best Evidence course only online, since...

On September 14, 2022 the University of British Columbia’s Therapeutics Initiative, an academic service that provides unbiased evidence about drug therapy to prescribers and pharmacists, released its latest Therapeutics Letter (issue 138) on “Reducing prescribing cascades”. The authors...

Case vignette: A 70-year-old woman is diagnosed with COPD, obstructive sleep apnea, left ventricular dysfunction with outflow obstruction, hypertension, prior pulmonary embolism, insomnia, anxiety, depression, mild cognitive impairment, and unexplained laryngitis. She takes 14 prescription drugs...