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Medbroadcast: 10-05-2004
EDMONTON (CP) - A University of Alberta islet transplant research program that has proven hopeful for patients with Type 1 diabetes will share a $75-million US grant from the American-based National Institutes of Health.
LONDON (AP) - British health authorities on Tuesday blocked flu vaccine shipments by the company that produces half the vaccine used in the United States just ahead of the flu season.
Chiron Corp.
LONDON (AP) - Flu shot shipments by a major vaccine supplier were blocked by British health authorities Tuesday just ahead of the flu season, immediately raising worries about whether there will be enough vaccine this year.
"The implications may be significant.
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.
EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta's auditor general says provincial health-care cards are being misused in a fraudulent manner that is costing the province millions of dollars.
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.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Just days after the arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves, a class action lawsuit has been launched in B.C. Supreme Court alleging negligence by drug maker Merck and Co. Inc.
TORONTO (CP) - Children whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy to on-the-job solvents like paint or dry-cleaning fluids score lower on tests for IQ, language and cognitive skills than other kids their age, a Canadian study has found.
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