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Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20 million doses of its vaccine, and 2.3 million Canadians received at least one dose of it, mostly between March and June 2021.

The announcement comes as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising again, though they remain near their lowest levels since the coronavirus outbreak began in 2020.

Ivano Bioscience has won an award for its innovative work: time-saving lab test kits that contain bioengineered artificial cells and viruses already inside them.

Medical and other types of students gain valuable insights from working with real human bodies that cab't be found in a textbooks.

'I was shocked. I had to read it twice,' recalled one patient who was dropped by her family physician. "Then my heart kind of went out to him too."

The bustling Newfoundland town of Bonavista held a community meeting last week about its lack of doctors, as its emergency room faces intermittent closures this summer due to staffing shortages.

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Quebec pharmacists and business partners Jonathan Banville, Steven Haddad and Patrick Lamarche were found guilty of unlawful sharing of fees and profits with a non-pharmacist, even though they were re-allocating profits to a clinic they owned.

Pharmacists Aska Patel and Anastasia Shiamptanis were among 20 international female pharmacists who were chosen.

German biotech company CureVac said Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival BioNTech for work that it says contributed to the development of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.