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Medbroadcast: 02-26-2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ten members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drugs makers, a new analysis shows.
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.
TORONTO (CP) - The makers of Vioxx, slammed by Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh for withholding safety data on the controversial drug, said Friday that they will co-operate with the department's regulatory arm.
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.
LONDON (AP) - An attention-seeking mother who killed her son by putting salt into his intravenous drip was sentenced Friday to five years in a British prison.
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.
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