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Medbroadcast: 02-03-2005
(CP) - The man arrested for illegally importing a new designer steroid into Canada was a former provincial-level track athlete once suspended for steroid use, a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency said Wednesday.
TORONTO (CP) - An Ottawa woman who wants the province to pay for a life-saving treatment for a genetic disorder should turn to a drug company for compassion, not the government, Premier Dalton McGuinty suggested Wednesday.
TORONTO (CP) - A new treatment that seeks out and destroys malignant cells from a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - one of the fastest-rising cancers in North America - caused tumours to shrink in 95 per cent of patients, a U.S. study shows.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Interested in following the U.S. government's new advice on what to eat? Advocates of the South Beach and Atkins diets want you to give their approaches a try, saying they're not all that different from the official recommendations.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A new study's conclusion about teens and driving could become a buzz kill for young people: Chatting on a cell phone while driving can add years to your life - way too quickly.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam reported another bird flu infection Wednesday in an outbreak that has killed 13 people over the past month, a doctor said.
A 24-year-old man from Hanoi was admitted to the city's Bach Mai hospital on Jan.
VANCOUVER (CP) - A doctor will lose his livelihood for two years because he countersigned prescriptions so U.S. patients could get cheaper medicine.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Cambodian woman became the first person confirmed to have died from bird flu outside Vietnam in an outbreak that has killed 13 people in a month, a doctor said Monday.
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