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Pharmacists say challenges around sourcing raw ingredients are behind the shortages of over-the-counter children’s fever and pain medication in pharmacies and retail stores across B.C., but they are cautioning parents against stockpiling the products or trying to adjust doses at home. Children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen products, often referred to by the brand names Advil and …

Amid a nationwide shortage of children’s pain and fever medications, Health Canada was due to speak with manufacturers on Thursday to discuss ways to boost supply. Parents across the country have noted empty shelves where they had hoped to find pediatric acetaminophen or ibuprofen products, like liquid Tylenol and Advil, …

Philadelphia: An international team of researchers have found that medications to treat high blood pressure do not affect outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The study, led by researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, is the first randomized controlled …