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Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Ottawa before studying medicine at McGill University.

Fewer applicants have family medicine as first choice, but also more positions were available.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said in a press release Monday that Canada is the first country in the world to give the regulatory greenlight for Albrioza as a treatment for the devastating neurodegenerative disease.

Toronto Public Health says there are 11 confirmed cases in the city as of Saturday, two higher than the provincial total of nine released a day earlier by Canada's chief public health officer when she reported a national case count of 112.

Now, 26 years after he last put on a sash to get his masters at Johns Hopkins University, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer walked on stage Friday to accept his own honorary degree.

Indeed, in 2021, Public Health Ontario reported the highest number of syphilis cases (2,678) in at least a decade.

The program, called First Exposure, will bring together a wide network of researchers and healthcare professionals and include an accessible public-facing website.

With patients reluctant to get additional boosters, Dr. Noorali Bharwani examines the evidence.