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The deal amounts to an additional $46 billion from Ottawa over a decade, as long as the provinces meet some conditions.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly said in the opinion that drug companies had failed to prove that a federal rule allowing states to import medicines would create a “concrete risk of harm” for them.

The government is also providing funding for 40 new undergraduate physician-training seats.

Pharmacy associations have a mixed response to the federal government’s funding announcement of $196 billion for health care over the next decade.

Dr. Adam Chen takes a playful look at the striking similarities between priests and family doctors these days.

A statement from the Ehattesaht First Nation says six young people have died from drug overdoses in the small village over the past few months.

Dr. Leisha Hawker, president of Doctors Nova Scotia, says improving the primary care clinic structure will help attract new physicians to a province where 130,000 residents are without a family doctor.

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), has appointed Thomas Digby as its new chair.