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Medbroadcast: 10-08-2004
OTTAWA (CP) - Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says provinces should tell the public now what they did with $300 million intended for hepatitis C victims but never received by them.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck & Co. yanked the blockbuster drug Vioxx due to increased risks for heart attack and strokes, the chairman of the U.S.
TORONTO (CP) - Medical sciences company MDS Inc. has appointed longtime drug industry executive Gilbert Godin as the new president of its contract research services division
Toronto-based MDS (TSX:MDS; NYSE:MDZ) said Thursday that Godin will take over MDS Pharma Services,
WINNIPEG (CP) - The nurse who cared for an 83-year-old woman just before she died of a potassium overdose told an inquest Thursday that an intravenous pump was set at twice the speed she expected.
TORONTO (CP) - Pediatricians need to watch for signs of maternal depression to prevent "serious and lasting" consequences for the baby and should reassure mothers that antidepressant use will not harm their child, the Canadian Paediatric Society advised Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - The unexpected death of a crewman more than 24 hours after a fire aboard a Canadian submarine mirrors the delayed-effect pattern of smoke inhalation - an injury called the quick-change artist of emergency medicine.
TORONTO (CP) - Keisha Senior knows she's supposed to stop taking Vioxx for her chronic rheumatoid arthritis. But Senior, 25, has been unable to reach her doctor and is unwilling to undergo the devastating pain that will follow an abrupt change to her pain control regime.
TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto doctor accused of co-signing thousands of prescriptions for an Internet pharmacy without seeing patients changed his story several times under heated cross-examination at his disciplinary hearing Thursday.
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