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If you’ve been on social media lately—perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn’t but you just can’t sleep—you might have seen those videos promoting this get-to-sleep technique.

It is important to inform patients that they are quite likely to experience some rebound symptoms when reducing the dose or discontinuing their PPIs.

Many concerns at our clinic are common and diagnosable from a distance, before actually taking a history or doing a close examination—but not all of them.

Let’s have no more calls for involuntary hospitalization for those who are both homeless and severely mentally ill. Quebec has a far better alternative; it’s voluntary, more humane, effective, evidence-based and cheap.

Every night, millions of people stop breathing without knowing it.

Starting a job in a non-pharmacy environment? Good chance there are opportunities to use your specific and special clinical skills to enhance your organization.

From common cold tablets to antidepressants, caffeine’s impact on the body goes far beyond a quick energy boost.

Alcohol consumption will continue to be commonplace and ‘acceptable’ for decades to come. As physicians, we need to understand the complexity of our society, and why patients make the decisions they do.