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Medbroadcast: 11-17-2004
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Health activists demanded more money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ahead of the group's board meeting where U.S. representatives are expected to push for a suspension of new projects.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The makers of the popular Bowflex fitness machine are recalling nearly 800,000 units after dozens of people reported injuries from mechanical problems, the U.S. government said Tuesday.
This marks the second large recall of Bowflex equipment this year.
LONDON (AP) - Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Not content with having a drug that might merely fight obesity and smoking, the company developing this eagerly anticipated pill will soon launch studies to see if it can treat and prevent clogged arteries and heart disease.
EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein acknowledged Tuesday that he personally doesn't have a problem with the private delivery of health-care services.
In his strongest endorsement of private health care since hitting the campaign trail for the Nov.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Regardless of how they shed pounds in the first place, big losers stayed that way by limiting fat rather than carbohydrates, according to new research that could add fuel to the backlash against low-carb diets.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - International researchers launched the first worldwide health research summit Tuesday in a desperate bid to revive research on the so-called "forgotten diseases," the illnesses of the poor that account for one-half the world's deaths.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Economic fallout shouldn't be the only cause for concern over backups of commercial traffic at the U.S.-Canada border. A new study reports that people living near busy crossings are more likely to develop asthma.
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