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Medbroadcast: 02-11-2005
TORONTO (CP) - The number of women seeking abortions across Canada appears to be continuing a downward trend, although in some provinces rates remain the same or are slightly on the rise, figures from Statistics Canada suggest.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A California man is suing a hospital and one of its surgeons, claiming one of his testicles was wrongly removed during surgery.
TORONTO (CP) - Health Canada came under fire Thursday for a decision to yank from the market a drug that U.S. regulators believe is a safe and effective treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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.
TORONTO (CP) - Hundreds of Ontario patients face delays in surgery as anesthetists leave operating theatres Friday to protest the government's funding and wait-list strategy that doctors say does nothing to address acute stresses in the system.
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peruvian surgeons have performed a preliminary operation to separate the fused legs of a nine-month-old girl known as the "baby mermaid" because of a rare birth defect, her doctor said Thursday.
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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.
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