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Medbroadcast: 02-25-2005
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - A new case of avian flu in Vietnam on Friday heightened the sense of urgency for top health and animal experts gathered at a conference in the Southeast Asian country with the goal of mapping out a long-term strategy for fighting the deadly virus.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu case Friday, heightening the sense of urgency as an international conference on fighting the deadly virus ended with calls for concerted action to prevent a possible pandemic.
BOSTON (AP) - Research on a recently discovered HIV strain shows it holds an array of disturbing traits that help it quickly progress to full-blown AIDS while resisting drug treatments, doctors said Thursday at a meeting on AIDS science.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Concerned Americans are consuming salt at twice the recommended levels, a consumer group asked a federal court Thursday to force the government to regulate it.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Before she was the severely brain-damaged patient at the centre of a legal dispute over whether she should live or die, Terri Schiavo was a young woman who desperately wanted to be thin.
At 26, she was strikingly beautiful with delicate features.
LONDON (CP) - Britain's Food Standards Agency on Thursday extended a list of foods that could be contaminated with a dye linked to cancer.
TORONTO (CP) - Witnessing a once sweet-tempered loved one turn belligerent and physically aggressive is one of the most difficult aspects of dementia for family members to contend with.
TORONTO (CP) - Both Canada and the United States have embraced a policy of vaccinating children against influenza, but are doing so without much solid science to show that the move will actually pay off in terms of fewer flu deaths, hospitalizations or complications, a new study suggests.
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