Elevated blood pressure, commonly referred to as hypertension, is prevalent and has become “big business”. As a result much that is written about hypertension is conflicted and influenced by vested interests. It is thus important...
THIS COURSE IS SOLD OUT! When: Saturday, 29 October 2016 Where: Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Ave, Surrey BC [map] What: Bringing Best Evidence to Clinicians: Combining Evidence and Clinical Pharmacology to Improve Drug Therapy Overview This popular conference put on every year...
A team of five educators with the UBC Therapeutics Initiative (Cait O'Sullivan, Pharma, Jim Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Aaron Tejani, Pharma, Tom Perry, MD, FRCPC, David Urquhart, MD, CCFP) will be visiting the Kootenay Boundary Region in May to address several...
Therapeutics Letter #821 summarized evidence from the Cochrane systematic review, Treatment blood pressure targets for hypertension.2 The Cochrane review was based on the 7 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) designed to test treatment targets that were available as of October 2008....