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Manuel is intended to help physicians, patients and multidisciplinary teams involved in opioid agonist therapy treatment.

The tool recently changed names from ‘Find a Physician’ to the new ‘Physician Directory,’ which otherwise includes the same info as its previous iteration.

Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks, which encompassed 875 restaurants and were reported by 25 state and local health departments.

Under the plan, members of the Sackler family would give up ownership of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue, which would become a new company known as Knoa, with its profits being used to fight the opioid crisis.

Dr. Wee-Shian Chan, head of medicine at BC Women’s Hospital, said breathing in pollutants and toxic gases generated by forest fires takes particulate matter into the bloodstream and lungs, making it harder to breathe.

A University of British Columbia study found acting more robotic and impersonal could help put people at ease when talking about subjects they consider embarrassing. Healthcare professionals, take note.

The board’s vote late Thursday to issue a letter of reprimand against Dr. Caitlin Bernard won’t limit her ability to practice medicine in the state, and the hospital system where she works said it stood by its finding that she followed privacy rules.

N.L. premier Dr. Andrew Furey went to Ireland to talk to Canadians training abroad in medicine.