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At Dr. David Macklin’s weight management practice in Toronto, the name Ozempic is mentioned almost daily in appointments. But recently, another word is coming up just as often — generics. “It is a regular conversation, daily in fact, where patients will be asking when their … medications may be less …

बठिंडा में थाना सिविल लाइन पुलिस ने जिम ट्रेनर ओमकार सिंह को 350 ग्राम चिट्टे समेत गिरफ्तार किया है। पुलिस ने आरोपी के खिलाफ नशा तस्करी का केस दर्ज करके अगली कार्रवाई शुरू कर दी है।  थाना सिविल लाइन एसएचओ रविंदर सिंह ने बताया कि मंगलवार को जब थाना सिविल …

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It’s like Amazon for hard drugs: cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, paid for with credit cards and e-transfers, delivered by Canada Post.  For weeks, CBC Ottawa and Radio-Canada exchanged messages with nearly a dozen people who have been buying these drugs online. Eventually one came forward, offering to talk about their …

Caracas is “slowly going back to normal,” said Venezuelan journalist Lila Vanorio. Speaking to CBC from the capital city, Vanorio said that aside from a large display of police and military around the country’s parliament for interim president Delcy Rodriguez’s oath-taking ceremony, there is little now that appears out of …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Former Winnipeg police officer Elston Bostock has pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs over a period of …

Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The World Health Organization on Monday issued its first guideline on the use of GLP-1 therapies for obesity, conditionally recommending them as part of long-term treatment for …

Voices more closely connected to the U.S. military have emerged this week to raise their own questions about a spate of boat strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the Western hemisphere carried out by the Trump administration since Sept. 2. An anonymous Pentagon employee and a retired U.S. Air Force …

People in Ontario will have fast-tracked access to some new cancer drugs, Sylvia Jones, the province’s deputy premier and minister of health announced Tuesday.  The Funding Accelerated for Specific Treatments, or FAST, program aims to connect patients to life-saving and life-changing cancer treatments almost a full year sooner, reducing delays and improving …

Ibrahim Lwingi lost both of his parents due to HIV-related illnesses when he was 14. The Nairobi native describes himself as an orphan even today — he’s now 43.  The virus also took the lives of some of his uncles, and Lwingi, who is gay, believes he would’ve been next …