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Medbroadcast: 10-02-2004
LONDON (AP) - In another blow to the belief that antioxidant supplements improve health, an authoritative analysis has concluded there is no evidence the vitamins ward off common digestive cancers.
MONTREAL (CP) - Strippers in Canada's two largest cities face aggressive clients, unsafe stages and clubs that don't meet fire codes, says a study released on Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - The arthritis medication at the centre of one of the biggest drug recalls in history was associated with dozens of heart problems and strokes - at least four of them fatal - during the study that led to its demise.
MONTREAL (CP) - A Quebec consumers group will ask the courts to hear a class action lawsuit against Merck Frosst Canada on behalf of Quebecers who have bought Vioxx, which has been pulled from the market.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Vioxx was already a big success as an arthritis pain reliever, but Merck & Co. thought it could be an even bigger seller. The drug seemed to have some cancer-prevention qualities, so the drugmaker began a long-term study to test it for that use.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the United States, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors.
TORONTO (CP) - With no deaths and just 25 human cases in four provinces, it's tempting to think that Canada has dodged the bullet from the big gun that was the threat of West Nile virus this year.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - General Mills Inc. is converting all of its U.S. breakfast cereals to whole grain, making it the latest food company to undergo a nutritional makeover amid growing pressure from the government and consumer groups.
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