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Medbroadcast: 11-24-2004
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) - Doctors said Tuesday they successfully treated a teenager with a usually fatal case of rabies by using a novel combination of drugs.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - A Caribbean HIV/AIDS conference got underway in St. Kitts as the United Nations released a new report Tuesday saying that the number of women living with AIDS has increased in every region of the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than a quarter of babies born in the United States in 2003 were delivered by caesarean section, the highest rate on record, according to a government report released Tuesday.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Hospitals battling C. difficile outbreaks are largely doing so armed with anecdotal information, not scientific data, because too little clinical research has been done on what has traditionally been viewed as a "nuisance disease," a leading expert said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) - A widely reported government study that said obesity is about to overtake smoking as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States contained statistical errors and may have overstated the problem, health officials acknowledged Tuesday.
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government is spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars more than necessary for its prescription-drug benefit programs, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said Tuesday.
TORONTO (CP) - A surprising number of elite high school athletes are using chewing tobacco, a highly addictive and potentially deadly habit that appears rooted in team culture, a public health conference heard Tuesday.
MONTREAL (CP) - City health officials knew about the deadly C. difficile outbreak at least five months before the provincial Health Department was informed, according to a broadcast report.
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