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Top Toronto health official wins rare intervenor status in court battle over vaccinating couple’s children

Article content Toronto’s chief public-health official has won the right to intervene in a court dispute over vaccinating a divorced couple’s children, a rare step Dr. Eileen de Villa says was necessary to combat dangerous misinformation about vaccines. The city’s medical officer of health (MOH) now has lawyers taking part in an appeal slated for… Read More »

AMAG wins FDA nod for Vyleesi. Could it be the ‘female Viagra’ that Addyi never was?

Valeant, now Bausch Health, paid $ 1 billon in 2015 for Sprout Pharmaceuticals’ female libido drug Addyi, only to sell it back in 2017. Now as the drug is still nowhere near the blockbuster status Valeant once touted, a rival has arrived. The FDA late Friday approved AMAG Pharmaceuticals’ Vyleesi (bremelanotide) to treat premenopausal women with… Read More »