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Medbroadcast: 11-26-2004
TORONTO (CP) - There's no way to fix lengthy wait times for health-care services without addressing the country's pressing shortage of family doctors, the group representing those practitioners warned Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - A report from Cancer Care Ontario will help guide the province in its long-term goal to reduce treatment wait times, but there's still no quick fix, Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - Emergency room overcrowding is standing between heart attack patients and the clot-busting drugs they need to minimize cardiac damage and maximize their survival chances, a new study concludes.
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.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.
(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.
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