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High school students across Canada to be trained on how to administer naloxone
The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be added to the CPR and automated external defibrillator training it offers for free in high schools across the country.
Federal government to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates: sources
The new rules are expected to come into effect on June 20, though two government sources close to the decision, who were granted anonymity to speak about matters they were not authorized to discuss publicly, say the rules for foreign nationals coming to Canada will not change.

New drug price regulations could save Canada billions of dollars: PBO report

Health Canada first announced in 2019 that the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board would change how it sets a price cap on medicines in Canada in an effort to lower excessively expensive drug costs by changing the countries Canada compares prices with.
International Pharmaceutical Federation calls for a database of medicine package inserts in all languages

Asks for the World Health Organization to develop and operate the database.
FDA advisers consider Moderna's COVID shots for older kids

If the panel endorses the shot and the FDA agrees, it would become the second option for those children, joining Pfizer's vaccine.
Testing, testing: How one LGBTQ+-focused clinic is looking to tackle the pandemic lapse in STI, HIV and other testing

Indeed, in 2021, Public Health Ontario reported the highest number of syphilis cases (2,678) in at least a decade.
Medimap it: Clinic and pharmacy finder platform wants to be the Google of healthcare

Patients use the service for convenience. For busy clinics and pharmacists, Medimap helps even out patient flow and reduce phone inquiries about wait times and hours of operation.
Number of Canadian blood donors plummets to lowest point in a decade during COVID-19

About 400,000 Canadians give blood on a regular basis.
Pfizer COVID-19 appears effective for kids under 5: U.S. panel

Late last week the FDA posted a similar analysis of Moderna's shots for children under 6.
U.S. trade commission to investigate business practices of PBMs

Independent pharmacy groups had lobbied for years that audit, clawback and policy practices were harming both pharmacies and patient care.