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Medbroadcast: 02-27-2005
GENEVA (AP) - A global anti-tobacco treaty that comes into force Sunday needs strengthening fast if it is to curb a killer that claims five million lives a year, a leading expert said.
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BOSTON (AP) - Blacks are contracting HIV at twice the rate they were in the late 1980s and early '90s, which researchers and AIDS prevention advocates attribute to drug addiction, poverty and poor access to health care, according to government statistics.
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.
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