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Medbroadcast: 04-17-2006
EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta's new $500-million endowment fund to reduce cancer rates is creating a buzz of excitement among researchers, fundraisers and a group that helps kids with cancer.
"It's huge," said Dr.
PAWTUCKET, RI (AP) - Brown University medical student Jeremy Boyd leaned on the rail of Marian Thorpe's hospital bed and asked her about her collapse during dialysis. Then he asked whether she had any other medical conditions.
"Do you have a long time?" asked Thorpe, 93.
WINNIPEG (CP) - With just one month left for American patients to enrol in a new federal drug plan, Canada's online pharmacy industry is trying to assess just how big a hit they've taken - and how soon they might recover.
While there have been some layoffs and losses since the U.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh will vaccinate about 18 million children aged five and under to combat polio, which recently re-emerged after authorities believed it had been eradicated five years ago, the country's health minister said Saturday.
(CP) - The notion is a tempting one, given the potentially dire alternative. And it plays on the minds of some scientists who've been watching the avian influenza virus known as H5N1 since it was first isolated in a Chinese goose a decade ago.
(CP) - Influenza experts trying to forecast the future path of the worrisome H5N1 avian flu virus do so in the face of an unsettling number of unknowns.
BEIJING (AP) - A man whose face was badly disfigured after an attack by a black bear received a partial face transplant Friday, in what a hospital described as a first for China.
TORONTO (CP) - Patients given a certain antibiotic for acute asthma attacks had reduced symptoms and a hastened recovery, providing a potential new avenue of treatment for the increasingly common affliction, researchers say.
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