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Medbroadcast: 12-01-2004
MONTREAL (CP) - Quebec children don't eat enough fruits, vegetables, grains and dairy products, according to a five-year provincial study released on Tuesday.
WALKERTON, Ont. (CP) - The two brothers at the centre of one of Canada's worst public-health disasters pleaded guilty Tuesday to their part in the E. coli tragedy that killed seven and left thousands ill in this sleepy farm town four years ago.
VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. Centre for Disease Control issued an alert Tuesday warning travellers about malaria in the Dominican Republic after two people were diagnosed with the most severe form of the disease.
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) - Kansas is joining three other U.S. states in a program aimed at helping residents import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday.
The program, started by Illinois Gov.
TORONTO (CP) - Women pregnant with twins, triplets and other multiple births are at increased risk of serious health problems, a new study shows, adding fuel to the debate over whether fertility clinics should implant only one embryo during assisted reproduction attempts.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A hospital in the Netherlands recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It had already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
TORONTO (CP) - Canadians, it seems, aren't feeling as hale these days as they did about a decade ago.
A report on the health of Canadians, released Tuesday, showed the number who assess their own health as excellent or very good declined from the mid-1990s to 2003, when 59.
TORONTO (CP) - As people across Canada commemorate the 16th annual World AIDS Day on Wednesday, Louise Binder will mark it by checking off another day on her calendar.
At 55, the Toronto woman has had HIV for 12 years.
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