Practice Guidelines Initiative has published their recommendations for baseline staging tests
in breast cancer. 1 I wish to take issue with the recommendation that ultrasonography of the …

Practice Guidelines Initiative has published their recommendations for baseline staging tests
in breast cancer. 1 I wish to take issue with the recommendation that ultrasonography of the …

Two recent articles asked for an eval-uation of whether the European experience with safe
injecting rooms can be replicated in Canada. 1, 2 We feel that before Canada's first “safe …

ABSTRACT Injection Drug Users (IDU) represent less than 1% of Canada's total population.
Nevertheless, they bare a disproportionate burden of disease with health and law …

What evidence do Thomas Kerr and Anita Palepu have for their supposition that “staff...
better able to encourage people to seek help, to discuss health concerns with them and to …

Abstract" Our government believes that creat-ing a location for sanctioned use of drugs
obtained from illicit sources has the potential for great harm in a com-munity,"[Leona …

Vancouver residents seem to be tiring of the war-on-drugs approach to the drug problem in
the city's Downtown East Side neighbourhood. A poll conducted after the city's drug strategy …

“We will continue to support treatment and recovery programs that get addicts off drugs and
help them recover drug-free lives,” she said. She also chastised Liberal Leader Justin …

Reports on problems caused by the use of dirty needles. Up to 20 million people contract
hepatitis from injections that are often unnecessary.

HIV, hepatitis B & C, drug overdose, and other drug-related health problems still pose
significant health risks to injection drug users (IDUs) and their sexual partners, indicating the …