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Medbroadcast: 12-10-2004
MONTREAL (CP) - There's a growing belief that pregnant women should be receiving key vaccines, including flu shots, experts say. But two new studies suggest the health-care professionals they see most often don't or can't deliver the vaccines in question.
VICTORIA (CP) - Private clinics on Vancouver Island are being asked to submit bids to perform operations normally done at public hospitals, a Vancouver Island Health Authority spokesman said on Thursday.
The Vancouver Island Health Authority is expecting to spend $2.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - Removing just one to three key lymph nodes instead of the usual dozen or more can spare women lifelong arm problems and reliably indicate whether breast cancer has spread and needs aggressive treatment, the first big study to test this approach has found.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A novel type of antibiotic has been shown in laboratory tests to powerfully attack and control tuberculosis, and some experts predict it could become the first new drug in 40 years to effectively combat the killer disease.
TORONTO (CP) - Melatonin supplements have been hailed as a godsend by some weary shift workers, insomniacs and those with jet lag, but a new study out of the University of Alberta says they don't actually help much at all.
"It has no benefit . . . That's the bottom line," Dr.
TORONTO (CP) - Poverty, AIDS and wars are taking a savage toll on children around the world even though progress has been made in improving their lot in certain other areas, the head of UNICEF Canada says.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - A newer drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have had the disease, doctors are reporting.
OTTAWA (CP) - Health-care spending in Canada is projected to reach $130 billion this year, up 5.9 per cent from 2003 but still the lowest annual jump since 1997.
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