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Medbroadcast: 02-27-2006
OTTAWA (CP) - There could be a long wait time for the new Conservative plan to cap medical wait times. Health Minister Tony Clement acknowledges it will take a lot of work with provinces to implement the "care guarantee" that his party promised during the election campaign.
TORONTO (CP) - A high proportion of nursing graduates are reporting severe burnout less than two years into their jobs - primarily because of crushing workloads, a new study has found.
BERLIN (AP) - Tests by a federal lab have confirmed that a wild duck found near Lake Constance in southwestern Germany carried the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the regional government said Saturday.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - U.S. regulators have delayed a decision on whether to approve Merck & Co.'s experimental vaccine to prevent shingles and reduce pain from the common nerve disorder, sending Merck shares down Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A registry program intended to prevent use of the acne drug Accutane by pregnant women in the United States will begin next week as planned following an earlier delay, federal regulators said Thursday.
The IPledge system will start Wednesday, the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) - An antibiotic and a muscle-related compound are leading candidates for a major government study of whether certain compounds could slow the worsening of Parkinson's disease.
TORONTO (CP) - Scientific articles charting one laboratory's sequencing of the remaining three genes of the 1918 Spanish flu virus and work by others to recreate the virus were named the top scientific papers of 2005 by the medical journal Lancet.
MONTREAL (CP) - A dispute over Canada's only Shriners hospital for children flared again Friday between Montreal and London, Ont.
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