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Prescription product indicated for the treatment of acute migraine with or without aura in adults.

Canadian facilities report success after adoption of single embryo transfer

Material is cheaper and causes less pain than the standard method

A recent Ontario-based research network report evaluates Saskatchewan’s Partnership to Assist with Cessation of Tobacco and Tobacco Addiction Recovery (PACT/TAR) programs.

The addition of tiotropium significantly increased the time to the first severe asthma exacerbation and provided modest sustained bronchodilation compared to placebo.

No benefit found in new study but French researcher says more work ‘urgently’ needed

There's no question, getting young professionals to settle in small, out-of-the-way communities can be a challenge, especially when the bright lights of Canada's biggest cities beckon. Enter distributed medical education programs: Find doctors suited to rural life, train them in the community and, the thinking is, they'll stick around. Presented as a vital plank in a multi-faceted plan to ensure more doctors "go rural," more medical schools have opened distributed learning campuses across the country-13 are operating this year-including new campuses from Dalhousie and the University of Toronto. Health officials and educators have trumpeted the plan as the magic bullet solution for the rural doctor shortage. But how effective are these programs at getting doctors into under-serviced areas?