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Medbroadcast: 02-10-2005
HAVANA (AP) - Dancing, singing, eating vegetables and positive thinking were a few of the secrets to long life revealed by a dozen Cubans who met Wednesday in a rare gathering of 100-somethings.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A pharmaceutical company is expanding a nationwide recall from last month to cover all lots of a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial.
TORONTO (CP) - Encouraging patients to agree to routine HIV testing - even when they appear at low risk for the disease - would not only prolong lives but also save health-care dollars, a joint Canadian-U.S. study suggests.
TORONTO (CP) - Health Canada has ordered a once-a-day treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder off the market after learning the drug has been linked to 20 sudden deaths and 12 strokes, including among children.
TORONTO (CP) - Drawn out contract talks with Ontario's doctors will not derail plans to group physicians, nurses and other practitioners into family health teams or delay other government schemes to reform the system, Health Minister George Smitherman said Wednesday.
TORONTO (CP) - There may be something to the notion of dying of a broken heart after all.
Intriguing new research published Thursday in a pre-eminent medical journal suggests that some people in the throes of acute emotional distress can experience a cascade of biochemical
TORONTO (CP) - Hospitals and long-term care homes across Ontario will get $340 million to upgrade their medical equipment, Health Minister George Smitherman announced Tuesday.
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