As summer arrives many of our patients will be spending time outdoors with their family, friends, and pets. This is an important opportunity to review measures they can take to reduce the risk of... Read More
BC Centre for Disease Control
Point-of-care HIV tests are screening tests for use in the clinic setting that provide immediate results on fingerstick blood specimens. These antibody-based tests have similar properties to... Read More
A 78-year-old man, who was receiving donepezil for dementia, developed paralytic ileus after donepezil was discontinued. The man, who had started receiving donepezil 5 mg/day about 3 years previously... Read More
Therapeutic interventions in medicine can seldom be solely directed at one target. When basic research identified tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF–α) as one of the key cytokines involved in several... Read More
Venlafaxine (Effexor), a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, entered the Canadian market in 1994. As with any new medication, experience with overdose was extremely limited when... Read More