British Columbia declared a public health emergency in April 2016 following a sharp rise in opioid-related deaths due to adulteration of street drugs with imported illicit fentanyl.[1] The College of... Read More

Until the mid-2000s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections were predominately hospital acquired (HA-MRSA) and seen mainly in patients and health care personnel. However, since... Read More

From time to time you will see requests for medical inspectors or audit hearing panel members. You may wonder why anyone would want to be a medical inspector and audit their peers. When the Audit... Read More

Components in cigarette smoke directly damage your muscles. New research, published in The Journal of Physiology, indicates that smoking decreases the number of small blood vessels that bring oxygen... Read More

Twelve exceptional BC health professionals (including 10 physicians) have been funded in the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research’s (MSFHR) second Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I)... Read More