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Medbroadcast: 01-31-2005
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A 10-year-old girl from southern Vietnam became the 12th person to die of bird flu in a month, health officials said Monday, as authorities took precautions to keep the disease from spreading during the upcoming Lunar New Year festivities.
MONTREAL (CP) - The Canadian Hemophilia Society says the country's blood system has improved markedly since thousands of people were infected after receiving tainted blood products in the 1980s.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Record low temperatures over the North Pole are thinning the protective ozone layer, a condition which could affect human health in northern countries and even central European states, the European Union warned Monday.
(AP) - Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Cornell University researchers are trying to boost the level of a fatty acid in milk shown to prevent or limit cancer, bolstering milk's health benefits and giving struggling farmers a new market.
LONDON (AP) - Britain's first openly gay legislator revealed Sunday that he has been HIV positive for 17 years.
VANCOUVER (CP) - A Vancouver company has been awarded $1.4 million US by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to conduct human clinical trials on a male contraceptive, it was announced on Sunday.
VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. man has launched a class-action lawsuit against drug maker Eli Lilly over its medication Zyprexa, claiming the company "minimized" the heath risks of taking the anti-psychotic drug.
The suit filed in the B.C.
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