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Medbroadcast: 11-18-2004
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Italy has offered a compromise on human cloning that seeks common ground among UN member states who are sharply divided over competing treaties to ban the practice, diplomats said.
TORONTO (CP) - For the past six years, a Canadian-designed computer system has been the ears and eyes on the vast English Internet world for public health authorities keen to detect and contain outbreaks of infectious diseases and bioterrorism.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Users of the highly addictive and increasingly popular drug crystal methamphetamine can be treated successfully, experts concluded following a three-day conference on the synthetic drug.
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.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba's smoking rebels remained defiant Wednesday after the province laid more charges under its tough new anti-smoking law.
"I think it's a bunch of bull," said Finley Michaud, co-owner of Finley's Restaurant in Selkirk, a small community north of Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Health Canada's first peek inside the booming Internet pharmacy industry revealed some businesses were improperly shipping heat-sensitive drugs, buying drugs from unlicensed wholesalers and accepting rubber-stamped prescriptions.
MONTREAL (CP) - The RCMP and Health Canada warned users of so-called designer drugs like speed and ecstacy they're playing "Russian roulette" because they don't know what they're getting.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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