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...
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,...
An article published in the Science section of the July 25th, 2015 print edition of The Economist examines how failure to publish the results of all clinical trials is skewing medical science. Some estimates suggest the...
The UBC Therapeutics Initiative was among the 50 patient support groups, medical societies, universities and consumer groups that came together yesterday to launch the AllTrials campaign in the US and to say: We are calling on...