Healthcare

Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors may also reduce gout-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations, as well as provide cardiovascular benefits.

The change reflects the higher risk of tick bites now being seen in the province.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug at the end of last year’s second quarter to treat type 2 diabetes, but analysts see a lot of potential for it in the booming market for weight-loss treatments, and doctors have already been prescribing it off-label for that.

The new pill is from Sage Therapeutics, which has a similar infused drug that’s given intravenously over three days in a medical facility.

The health unit says with the increased hot weather recently there is a higher risk of mosquitos that can transmit the virus once infected.

Victoria’s Dr. Stephen Starr is back with another humour item – this one all about the joys of neighbours.

Pharmacists are known for eliciting positive reviews from patients and the public, who increasingly view their services as indispensable. But even pharmacists are not immune from bad online reviews.

Bad news is confrontational. We hesitate to disrupt homeostasis because we are afraid of the negative emotions it will cause others and ourselves. The imagined response in anticipation of our inflammatory reaction makes others procrastinate. What if there were a way to force bad news from coming out before it is too late?