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Transferring patients out of long-term care facilities is a time-consuming process because some residents with cognitive disabilities must be accompanied by staff who know them.

Two plaintiffs are leading the suit filed on behalf of all the women from the Atikamekw First Nation who allegedly didn’t consent to a procedure that impaired their fertility.

The next step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must issue recommendations for using the vaccine, named Abrysvo, during pregnancy.

Another generic drug maker, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, agreed to pay a US$30 million criminal penalty and to divest its pravastatin business as well.

David Shepherd, the NDP’s health critic, says an independent analysis is needed, and that the United Conservative government can’t be trusted to transparently report what went wrong.

Hao ‘David’ Yang has been suspended for three months and fined $3,500 by the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.

Dr. Michelle Ciach has been suspended for six months and ordered to pay $5,000 in investigation and hearing costs to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.

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