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Medbroadcast: 10-06-2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - A task force led by the U.S. Surgeon General is still drafting its report on drug importation, but one conclusion is already clear: Savvy shoppers can find cheaper prescription drugs in American pharmacies.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Tuesday for their work in discovering a process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.
EDMONTON (CP) - While the Alberta government has promised to crack down on health card fraud, the steps it is taking fall far short of what some other provinces are doing.
Alberta has one government employee who monitors possible abuse of its health insurance cards.
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.
EDMONTON (CP) - Claims of an anti-cold product breakthrough by an Alberta biotech firm are getting a cool response from a medical expert.
CV Technologies Inc. and University of Alberta researchers released clinical trial results Tuesday on Cold-fX.
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado organ-donor agency disputed a coroner's claim Tuesday that two hospitals allowed vital organs to be removed from a man before they proved he was brain dead.
LONDON (CP) - Global and U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the licence of the maker of half the U.S. vaccine supply just as flu season was about to begin.
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