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Medbroadcast: 11-27-2004
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - After almost a year of trying to bring Asia's bird flu under control, World Health Organization experts are now warning the disease is the most likely candidate to cause the world's next pandemic, with the possibility of as many as seven million deaths.
HALIFAX (CP) - Giving family doctors more support by spreading out the burden of primary care is crucial to reforming Canada's health-care system, says the head of a council evaluating nationwide efforts to improve medicare.
OTTAWA (CP) - Cosmetic manufacturers will be required to list the ingredients of their products on labels within two years, Health Canada will soon announce.
After 10 years of study, the cabinet has approved changes to cosmetic regulations.
TORONTO (CP) - A slew of new proposals aimed at ending a contract dispute with Ontario doctors should address all of their concerns without putting any new money on the table, the province's health minister said Friday.
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.
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