Practice Tips

Questions about equal access to best drugs and cancer care still remain

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes shares the ideas that are helping her achieve balance professionally and personally

A former B.C. pharmacist is once again at the centre of new allegations about methadone kickbacks in Vancouver.

Dr. Sandra Luscombe also plans to highlight gaps in care of developmentally disabled

In a recent survey of physicians in Canada, the U.K., New Zealand and Sweden, no doctors reported practising defensive medicine, which is defined as ordering medically unnecessary tests, treatments or consultations in order to avoid lawsuits. This contrasts with similar studies of U.S. physicians.

Maintenance treatment with pemetrexed (Altima) following induction therapy with pemetrexed plus cisplatin improves progression-free survival by a statistically significant 38% in patients with advanced non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), results from a phase III study show.