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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 ph
My name is Ashley Perreault, and I am now starting my third year of medical school at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. I have no conf
Medical student questions how Health Canada licensed OxyContin By Jessie Pappin Students at Dalhousie Medical School must pass a mandatory longitudinal course, Research in Medicine
An entire conference on deprescribing? Yes, you heard right! Older people from countries across the world commonly end up taking a lot of medications. In Canada, 2 out of 3 adults
We are finalizing an upcoming Therapeutics Letter on the topic of “Prescribing Cascades”, and wonder whether any readers know how to use office or hospital electronic m
The Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics (APT) at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (te
Global research output is growing rapidly: it is estimated that the number of global scientific publications doubles every nine years. Systematic reviews (syntheses of all the med
Therapeutics Letter No. 137 (May-June 2022) is one of Therapeutics Initiative’s first evidence-based Letters that does not reference prescription drug therapy. The new Let
Following recent patent expirations of originator biologics, their more affordable biosimilar versions became available. Switching patients from originator to its biosimilar as par
In our effort to make prescription drug use safer we at the TI are constantly on the alert for what is happening in the wider BC health system. While patients are often told to “