Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) continues to be an important pathogen, associated with peptic ulcer disease, dyspepsia, and gastric cancer. The conventional triple combination of a PPI, clarithromycin ...

Primary care clinicians face an overwhelming volume of information to process and tasks to complete. There are new and sometimes conflicting guidelines and practice standards, forms to fill out, ...

By Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC (biography and disclosures) Disclosures: Volunteer board member for CADDRA (Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance), no payments received. Mitigating potential bias: ...

I learned that a palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations address and manage patients' and families' psychological, practical, social, loss/grief, spiritual, and physical issues ...

By Gerri Klein RN MScN (biography and disclosures) What I did before Before the times of COVID and the introduction of continuous glucose monitoring, as a nurse diabetes educator, I instructed ...

Heart failure is the third leading cause of hospitalization in Canada and leads to readmission in 1 in 5 patients within 30 days after discharge. Iron deficiency (with or without anemia) is an ...

References Block SD. Medical education in end-of-life care: the status of reform. J Palliat Med. 2002;5:243-248. (View with CPSBC or UBC) DOI: 10.1089/109662102753641214 Buss MK, Lessen DS, Sullivan ...

Content filed under the Infectious Disease category.Given the increasing rates of syphilis and changing epidemiology of syphilis with increasing incidence in heterosexual populations, my clinical ...

Content filed under the Travel Medicine category.Once I diagnose a patient with CLM based on a compatible travel history and characteristic serpiginous rash, I continue to treat the itch and ...

Authors: Colleen Dy, MD, FRCS (C), NCMP (biography and disclosures), Zerlyn Lee, BSc, BScN (biography, no disclosures), and Adrienne Sim, BHK, MPT, Clinical Physiotherapy (biography, no disclosures) ...

While liver biopsy is crucial in determining the stage of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease, it is not the most accessible or appropriate test in most general practice settings. Non-invasive ...

A new laboratory test has been introduced in BC: the Infectious Diarrhea Panel (IDP). This combines the previous three tests with a single-specimen test, and replaces the stool C&S and O&P in BC. Note ...