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One evening in late March, a mom called 911. Her daughter, she said, was threatening to kill herself. EMTs arrived at the home north of Boston, helped calm the 13-year-old, and took her to an emergency room. Melinda, like a growing number of children during the covid-19 pandemic, had become increasingly anxious and depressed as

As of Feb. 5, Canada had administered 2.7 COVID-19 vaccination doses per 100 people compared to 61.7 for Israel and 16.2 for the United Kingdom. By contrast, Canada has signed contracts with seven different companies for a total of 234 million doses with options for tens of millions more. What’s going on? To understand the

Government BANS drug wholesalers from exporting 24 medications including HRT pills amid nationwide shortage Government imposed ban last night on export of HRT drugs, epipens and more UK pharmaceuticals are not able to sell their product abroad for higher price  Follows pharmacists’ warning they are ‘barely coping’ trying to source medicine  Drug wholesalers have been

One of the centrally located government hospitals in Delhi — Lok Nayak — ran out of third-line treatment for HIV this week. It will take at least three to four days for supply to normalise, according to senior officials in Delhi’s health department. “The drugs are centrally procured for the entire country by the National

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are providing an increasing proportion of primary care, which is in short supply in many areas of the country. NPs deliver quality care in retail clinics, community health centers, rural clinics, and in primary care and specialty medical practices. In an article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, University