One thing that endears me to the BCMJ is the editor’s page. DRR writes thoughtful, often funny comments about the world around us. His December editorial, “Sleep, when it no longer comes naturally,”... Read More

The development and commercialization arm of the Cleveland Clinic held its 16th annual Medical Innovations Summit in October 2018. The clinic’s scientists and physicians sifted through 100... Read More

September 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s report recognizing familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) as an important global public health issue.[1] FH results in life-... Read More

In 1828 it took 8 months for the young doctor William Fraser Tolmie (1812–1886) to sail from Scotland to the Pacific Northwest to assume his combined medical and fur-trading position with the Hudson’... Read More

Can lobsters feel pain? The government of Switzerland seems to have decided that, yes, they can. It recently passed a law that lobsters have to be stunned or killed before being placed into boiling... Read More