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Children and adolescents can safely exercise 72 hours after a concussion: study
Results from a new randomized clinical trial show it is safe for children to slowly return to physical activity after a concussion, even if symptoms are ongoing.
Ketamine may be useful for acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation
Study finds ketamine to be a safe, rapidly effective treatment for suicidal crisis in patients with bipolar disorder.

Insurance forms drive family doctors to distraction

Physician poll finds wide range on what doctors are charging for their time.
Kids can cook: New program for children with Type 1 diabetes

Led by an award-winning diabetes educator, the pilot project has already signed up more than 50 participants. But food insecurity faced by some of these kids may stir up a few challenges.
More trucks out of Ottawa's core, as calls grow for end to border blockades

Political patience with the protesters has run thin as vehicles choke the flow of goods at border crossings, including at Coutts, Alta., Emerson, Man., and the busy Windsor-Detroit Ambassador Bridge.
POLL: If we're post-peak vaccination in pharmacies, what's next?

Now that demand for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters has peaked, what's your priority for your pharmacy in the months ahead?
Northern Ontario School of Medicine receives 'ground breaking' donation

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine received a $1 million donation from the Slaight Family Foundation to support 40 BIPOC women medical students who live in Northern Ontario.
No explanation, no consent: Surgeon suspended for touching breasts of two female patients

In one instance, Dr. David Lee James Wardle said he exposed a patient's breast because he thought he had operated on it. He had not.
CPAP reduces need for 30-day intubation in COVID patients, but not mortality 'unsettling' study finds

Researchers suggests CPAP should be the initial treatment of choice in patients not yet needing intubation.
French HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier has died at 89

Montagnier died Tuesday at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a western suburb of the capital, the area's city hall said. No other details have been released.