Drugsearch.ca is a free search-engine website that shows the price of medications (brand and generic), whether a medication is covered by specific BC PharmaCare plans, and whether special authority... Read More
Letters
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable change in the ownership of family medicine practices in BC. Large numbers are now owned and operated by private corporations, which are neither owned... Read More
After careful review of more than 800 research papers on e-cigarettes, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicines’ evidence-based clinical guidelines concluded that there is “... Read More
To date (22 April 2020), there are no Health Canada–approved COVID-19 pharmacologic treatments, yet there is intense interest and media coverage of potential pharmacological agents.[1,2] In BC, we... Read More
Asking “Is our society ready to go digital?” may seem absurd considering that digital technologies are core to almost every aspect of our daily lives. Yet, asking “Is our health system ready for... Read More