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'It's not an ego trip, it's not a power trip—it’s just validation that I worked hard to get where I am today," said Jacqueline Palmer, one of three California nurse practitioners who recently filed a suit against the state.

Founded by Anushya Vijayaraghevan and Ajay Chahal, Apothecare Inc. started out as an educator for pharmacists and other healthcare professionals looking for evidence-based information on the medical uses of cannabis.

The change reflects the higher risk of tick bites now being seen in the province.

The platform allows primary care physicians and nurse practitioners to connect with specialists, often same-day, over the phone.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug at the end of last year’s second quarter to treat type 2 diabetes, but analysts see a lot of potential for it in the booming market for weight-loss treatments, and doctors have already been prescribing it off-label for that.

The health unit says with the increased hot weather recently there is a higher risk of mosquitos that can transmit the virus once infected.

Colleen Quinlan, the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s director of mental health and addictions, said in June that the centre will have two separate waiting rooms—one for those with mental health needs and the other for physical needs.

The association said in a statement that it had petitioned the government for access to the medication at “reasonable prices” from the beginning of this year, when the mutation that causes lethal Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) began to noticeably crop up in the island’s cat population.