Health Canada has approved the first drug designed to treat postpartum depression.
Zuranolone, sold under the brand name Zurzuvae, is a pill taken once a day for 14 days and can start relieving depressive symptoms in as few as three days.
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The University of Prince Edward Island also welcomed its first medical students this week as a regional campus of Newfoundland and Labrador's existing program at Memorial University. York University in Toronto and Simon Fraser University in Surrey, B.C., will also open new medical schools in the coming years.
Moderna says it will manufacture vaccine doses for the Canadian market in its new facility in Laval, Quebec and syringes will be filled in Cambridge, Ontario.