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The good and the bad with calcium and vitamin D in postmenopausal women
They reduce cancer mortality risk but increase risk for CVD death.
Upwards of 20% of people who attempt suicide lack prior psychiatric illness
Study challenges notion of who’s at risk, who should be screened.

Manitoba premier to apologize to two men switched at birth in 1955

Richard Beauvais, who had been raised Métis, did an at-home ancestry kit that said he was Ukrainian and Jewish.
Are Manitoba’s pharmacists being left behind?

Manitoba’s pharmacists should be able to assess and prescribe for more minor ailments—and they need provincial funding to pay for those services, says Pharmacists Manitoba.
Minnesota court rules pharmacist discriminated against woman in denying emergency contraception

The customer seeking the prescription said she then traveled about 100 miles (160 kilometers) round trip from the pharmacy in McGregor to another pharmacy in Brainerd, where she filled the prescription.
The unmatched spots are out after the first CaRMs round: Bet you can guess which specialty makes up most of them

The first round of matches for the R-1 Match came out March 19.
Major Quebec nurses union reaches agreement with province for five-year-contract

The union and Quebec Treasury Board President Sonia LeBel both said today they won’t discuss specifics before members have a chance to hear the details.
Did U.K. hospital staff try to snoop on Kate’s medical records? A privacy watchdog is investigating

Princess Kate had surgery at the clinic in central London on Jan. 16 and was discharged almost two weeks later.
N.S. to face wave of physician retirements as wait-list for primary care remains high

‘The level of stress on family doctors and emergency physicians has really quite drastically increased since I started to practice about 10 years ago.’
New CPS statement on managing febrile infants disrupts usual management strategy

But one of the recommended strategies uses a test that’s not widely available.

The good and the bad with calcium and vitamin D in postmenopausal women

Upwards of 20% of people who attempt suicide lack prior psychiatric illness

Manitoba premier to apologize to two men switched at birth in 1955

Are Manitoba’s pharmacists being left behind?

Minnesota court rules pharmacist discriminated against woman in denying emergency contraception

The unmatched spots are out after the first CaRMs round: Bet you can guess which specialty makes up most of them

Major Quebec nurses union reaches agreement with province for five-year-contract

Did U.K. hospital staff try to snoop on Kate’s medical records? A privacy watchdog is investigating

N.S. to face wave of physician retirements as wait-list for primary care remains high

New CPS statement on managing febrile infants disrupts usual management strategy