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Medbroadcast: 11-19-2004
OTTAWA (CP) - The British Columbia government does not have to pay for a costly early childhood treatment for autism, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday.
OTTAWA (CP) - The British Columbia government does not have to pay for a costly early childhood treatment for autism, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday.
The court ruled against a group of British Columbia parents who sued to force the province to pay for the treatment.
TORONTO (CP) - Growing frustration with the "crushing" burden that weighs on families with autistic children boiled over Thursday as parents savaged the Ontario government's failure to dole out nearly $17 million in funding with 1,200 kids languishing on a waiting list.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The American public is "virtually defenceless" if another medication such as Vioxx proves to be unsafe after it is approved for sale, a government drug safety reviewer told a congressional committee Thursday.
OTTAWA (CP) - In a rare moment of consensus, the government and opposition parties have united to declare war on trans fats - heart-clogging compounds present in many processed foods.
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government said Thursday it will create a task force to find ways of eliminating heart-clogging trans fats from foods sold in Canada.
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.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - New research suggests that developing the ability to run - long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man - was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of ape-like creatures into modern humans.
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