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Medbroadcast: 10-04-2004
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - American researchers Dr. Richard Axel and Linda Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell - showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The human toll from bird flu reached 31 on Monday when Thailand confirmed a nine-year-old girl died from the disease, while Indonesia announced it was among the countries still struggling with Asia's continuing outbreaks.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Americans Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck have won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in studying odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system in human beings.
CHICAGO (AP) - Mothers who smoke during or after pregnancy increase their babies' risk of developing colic, those vexing, inconsolable crying spells that affect up to 20 per cent of babies in their first few months of life, researchers say.
(CP) - More than 170,000 Canadians, many of them survivors, ran, walked, cheered or volunteered Sunday as part of the largest single-day fundraising event for breast cancer in Canada.
The Run - in its 13th year - raised $19.2 million to boost breast cancer research and programs.
OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's new public health agency should have been headquartered in Ottawa to avoid the problems the United States experienced when it located its own agency away from Washington, D.C., says a Health Canada briefing note.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in northern Thailand, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 11, a Health Ministry official said Monday.
OTTAWA (CP) - The Public Health Agency of Canada is warning Canadians in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario who have purchased a dwarf/pigmy or regular hamster in the past three months of a potential health concern.
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