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Medbroadcast: 02-13-2006
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) - Health authorities in Nigeria prepared Monday to screen dozens of people who worked on a farm hit by a deadly avian flu strain, amid fears the virus may have for the first time in Africa spread to humans.
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said Monday it has stopped recruiting patients to test its cancer drug Avastin in late-stage clinical trials after the deaths of four patients.
BEIJING (AP) - China issued its first official regulations on how to prevent and control the spread of the AIDS virus Sunday, mandating free testing and medication for the country's poor.
VANCOUVER (CP) - After a lifetime together, children have been born and taken their toll, bodies have aged, passion might dwindle, but not love. There's no age limit on love.
TORONTO (CP) - Think of it as a travelling crash course, Pandemic Influenza 201. Top officials of the Public Health Agency of Canada are about to embark on a cross-country series of seminars aimed at teaching Canadian journalists about the complex science of pandemic influenza and the plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Any bully's victim knows the experience can cause lingering fear. Now scientists watching big mice intimidate small ones have discovered the stress spurs genetic changes in the brain - a finding that may help research into depression and other mental illnesses.
NEW YORK (AP) - In a reversal of past trends, teenage girls are trying marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes at higher rates than boys, the White House drug czar said Thursday.
The findings from a new government analysis come even as teen drug use in the U.S. is declining overall.
WASHINGTON (AP) - That fresh grassy smell wafting up from the newly sliced tomato may be its way of saying "I'm good for you.
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