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Medbroadcast: 04-03-2006
TORONTO (CP) - Federal officials want to sharply cut the time it would take to vaccinate all Canadians in the event of a flu pandemic.
Authorities are in talks with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to secure the vaccine production capacity needed to do so.
CHICAGO (AP) - Many young children are too heavy for standard car-safety seats, and manufacturers are starting to make heftier models to accommodate them, according to research on the obesity epidemic's widening impact.
More than a quarter of a million U.S.
GENEVA (AP) - Pharmaceutical companies should try to cut drugs costs for the world's poorest people, the World Health Organization said in a report released Monday.
TORONTO (CP) - Federal officials want to sharply cut the time it would take to vaccinate all Canadians in the event of a flu pandemic.
Authorities are in talks with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to secure the vaccine production capacity needed to do so.
TORONTO (CP) - The former editor of a prominent American medical journal says he believes the Canadian Medical Association has learned a lesson from the storm of protest that followed the recent firing of the editor and deputy editor of its journal.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. government failed to follow proper procedures for destroying computer tapes containing personal medical information on thousands of residents, the province's privacy commissioner said Friday.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordanian health officials announced the kingdom's first human case of the bird flu Friday in a 31-year-old worker believed to have contracted the deadly strain in his home village in Egypt.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A law firm known for going after big corporations has filed a suit accusing sunscreen makers of exaggerating how well their products protect against harmful ultraviolet rays.
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