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Medbroadcast: 11-14-2004
EDMONTON (CP) - In a bid to flush out Ralph Klein's plans for health care reform in Alberta, the opposition NDP offered him some light reading material Saturday - a booklet called Health Care for Dummies.
LONDON (AP) - The British government is trying to track down a family that abandoned an 82-year-old man suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease in a London hospital waiting room.
The family, living in southern Spain, said they couldn't care for the man.
MONTREAL (CP) - DNA tests have put criminals in jail and set the innocent free, but the limits of the technology are being tested in Quebec as an identical twin tries to prove he is the father of a five-year-old boy.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin has lodged a $194-million-plug in Canada's brain drain, hoping the extra research funding will not only keep academics from leaving the country, but also lure stars from abroad.
OTTAWA (CP) - NDP Leader Jack Layton wants Canada to become the second country in the world to ban processed trans fats.
He says his New Democrats will introduce a motion in the House of Commons on Nov.
(AP) - Researchers say a second experimental cervical cancer vaccine appears to broadly protect against infection and risky precancerous conditions for more than two years.
TORONTO (CP) - The world has a unique chance to lay the groundwork for the production of a vaccine to fight a pandemic influenza that could kill tens of millions of people, but too little work is being done, the WHO said Friday following a summit of vaccine makers and key countries.
TORONTO (CP) - The World Health Organization, key countries and major flu vaccine makers agreed Friday there is an urgent need to push forward with production and licensing of trial batches of pandemic influenza vaccine.
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