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Medbroadcast: 11-25-2004
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The world is closer to the next flu pandemic "than we have ever been before" and it may kill two million to seven million people, a World Health Organization expert said Thursday.
OTTAWA (CP) - A group which advocates legalized marijuana says a new poll shows federal pot policies are out of touch with public opinion.
(AP) - Texas scientists working with mice say a single dose of a common protein appears to protect the heart muscle from extensive damage after a heart attack.
(AP) - Umbilical-cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two big studies indicate.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A vaccine to protect humans from the deadly bird flu virus is expected to be ready by 2007 after clinical trials are carried out in Thailand, health officials said Wednesday.
TORONTO (CP) - Almost half of Ontario's adults are overweight and measures need to be taken to reduce what has become an obesity "epidemic," the province's chief medical officer said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government approved a drug Tuesday that tries a new method of attacking multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease of the central nervous system that affects 350,000 Americans.
The drug - a monoclonal antibody produced by Cambridge, Mass.
OTTAWA (CP) - Several of Canada's key scientists were singled out for their work, receiving excellence in health research awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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