Background The past few years have seen shortages of family physicians in urban and remote areas throughout Canada. Problems caused by the projected shortfall in the number of family physicians... Read More

The Transfusion Medicine Advisory Group (TMAG) of BC has prepared guidelines to provide physicians with current information on the appropriate use of cryoprecipitate plasma. These guidelines are... Read More

Background Recent studies have estimated that patients with diabetes are twice as likely as members of the general population to be diagnosed with depression, and that depression in turn... Read More

The 2007 BCMA Annual General Meeting was a bit of the new, a lot of the old, and then, like a plant wilting in the sun, it flopped over, unable to sustain itself as members slipped out the door.... Read More

Sleep deprivation and fatigue and their aftereffects during medical training are topical issues in medical education. Long work hours combined with acute and chronic sleep deprivation have raised... Read More