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Medbroadcast: 10-09-2004
WINNIPEG (CP) - Dr. Carla Chrusche knew she was dealing with a critically ill patient on Jan. 4, 2002, when June Morris landed in her intensive care unit suffering from a broken hip, pneumonia, low blood pressure and malnutrition.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County health officials sent letters to producers and directors in the porn industry, urging them to use condoms during sex scenes to help prevent a repeat of April's HIV outbreak.
TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto-based law firm filed another class-action lawsuit Friday against drug maker Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
The lawsuit is the fifth to be filed in Canada since the drug was withdrawn by Merck on Sept. 30.
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.
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