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Medbroadcast: 11-21-2004
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to a new study by Swedish scientists.
OTTAWA (CP) - Health Canada is warning consumers not to use Blue Cap Shampoo and Blue Cap Spray because the shampoo contains betamethasone, a topical corticosteroid (steroid). The spray may contain a similar substance.
TORONTO (CP) - The global community of influenza experts is a small circle. These days, it's an exhausted, alarmed one as well.
TORONTO (CP) - Doctors across Ontario have voted to reject a proposed four-year fee agreement with the provincial government, The Canadian Press has learned.
TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's doctors overwhelmingly rejected a much-touted fee agreement with the provincial government on Saturday, a major setback for planned health-care reforms in the province with no immediate plan to resume negotiations.
TORONTO (CP) - Of all the barriers blocking crucial preparations for the next flu pandemic, and they are legion, the biggest may be psychological.
(CP) - Spanish Flu - Caused by an H1N1 virus. Emerged in the spring of 1918, subsided by 1920.
(CP) - Influenza - A disease of the respiratory tract caused by a large family of ever-evolving RNA viruses. Influenza viruses live in the guts of wild aquatic birds, causing no illness. But they create disease in a wide variety of mammals, including humans, seals, horses, pigs, and ferrets.
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