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...
Dear Nanaimo/Gabriola Physicians and Family Medicine Residents, Pharmacists and Nurses: Please join us in Nanaimo on Saturday, January 23, 2016, at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, from 8:00am to 4:30pm, for this special UBC Therapeutics Initiative...
UBC Therapeutics Initiative (TI) in partnership with Cochrane Hypertension invite you to our Christmas Special "Best Evidence on Tap" event on Monday, December 7, 2015 at 6:30 pm at Steamworks Brew Pub in downtown Vancouver (near Waterfront Skytrain Station). Guest speaker: Dr....