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The FDA-approved drug buprenorphine is effective in the treatment of opioid use disorder, but limited access to clinics that can prescribe this drug has contributed to only a small fraction of patients receiving the treatment.Researchers have suggested that a collaborative care model involving the delegation of the care of opioid use disorder patients by clinicians to pharmacists could improve access to buprenorphine.A pilot study conducted as part of a randomized phase 3 clinical trial… Read the full article here

Oh, baby! Hollywood stars including Brody Jenner, Logic and more are expanding their families by welcoming new babies in 2023. The former The Hills star announced on January 1 that girlfriend Tia Blanco pregnant with their first child. “To start off this new year, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our friends, family and followers health, happiness & an abundance of love,” Jenner and the pro surfer captioned a joint Instagram video of Blanco… Read the full article here

Hundreds of supporters of both the governor candidate of the Labour Party, candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Mbah, stormed the Enugu State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday over the alleged irregularities in the collation of the  results of the Saturday’s governorship election. The supporters of the PDP candidate, who trooped to INEC headquarters in their numbers, demanded that the… Read the full article here

A long time coming! Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell are reprising their roles as Dexter Reed and Ed, respectively, in Good Burger 2 — more than 20 years after the original premiered. The longtime friends first met on Nickelodeon’s All That in the early ‘90s. Their success on the sketch comedy series led to their spinoff series, Kenan & Kel, which ran from 1996 to 2000. Thompson and Mitchell’s fame grew even more in 1997 when they costarred in Good Burger. The… Read the full article here

The emergency call from the Swiss establishment came at 4pm on Thursday.Colm Kelleher, a rambunctious Irish banking executive who has been chair of UBS since last April, had been planning to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on Friday before watching Ireland play England at rugby on Saturday at a pub in Zurich. He was hoping to see his country win a clean sweep, or “Grand Slam”, in the Six Nations Championship.But even before he took the call, he knew his chances of enjoying an entertaining… Read the full article here

Captain Lee. Chris Haston/NBC Leaving a lasting impression. Below Deck‘s Captain Lee Rosbach reflected on his career — both onscreen and off — ahead of his exit from the franchise. During the season 10 finale, which aired on Monday, March 20, Lee, 73, praised the recent cast on the hit Bravo series. “I really hate to say goodbye to any of this crew. I would stack them up against anyone. I really would,” he told the cameras. “Going on 40 years I have been a… Read the full article here

The Monetary Policy Committee is due to begin its two-day meeting on the economy on Monday (today) amid the economic crisis fuelled by the naira redesign policy and fuel scarcity. Analysts in the country have said the Central Bank of Nigeria and the MPC may not raise the lending rates at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee. Although the CBN Governor and Chairman of the MPC, Godwin Emefiele, has said it is unhealthy for the economy to have an inflation rate that… Read the full article here

The Federal Government has reappointed the Chief Medical Director of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Jesse Otegbayo, for another term of four years. The PUNCH reports that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), approved the appointment of Otegbayo as the CMD in January 2019. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, announced this on Monday in Ibadan, the state capital. Ehanire had also handed over his letter of reappointment to him at… Read the full article here

A week after the twinning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, and the trouble at Credit Suisse, the dust is slowly settling down. SVB Financial Group has filed a voluntary petition for a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The company is no longer affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank, which operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is not included in the Chapter 11 filing…. Read the full article here

More than a week after New York regulators closed the crypto-friendly Signature Bank, Coinbase has reportedly stopped support for the institution’s Signet payment platform.According to a March 20 report from The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase users won’t be able to use Signet to send funds outside of banking hours until further notice. The crypto exchange was reportedly looking for another payment network provider and waiting on the outcome of the situation with Signature. The… Read the full article here