Healthcare

A company once owned by Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked up the price of a life-saving medication by roughly 4,000%.

A doctor and pharmacist in rural B.C. have had great success in their cooperative medication reviews and are looking to expand the benefits further.

Doctors Manitoba, which represents 4,000 physicians across the province, says the backlog of surgeries and diagnostic tests has grown to more than 52,000 cases.

A release says the threats were related to provincial public health rules requiring everyone older than five to wear a mask in public indoor settings.

Pharmacies in Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, and Nova Scotia will offer rapid tests for HIV, Hepatitis C and syphilis by next fall.

Residents who are 50 years or older are now eligible for a third dose, as are people 18 years and older living in the far north or on First Nation communities, and all healthcare workers.

Six Nations of the Grand River has regularly reported among the highest per capita COVID-19 rates in Ontario.

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research.