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Medbroadcast: 10-11-2004
NEW YORK (AP) - Only four per cent of Americans have ever used the Internet to buy prescription drugs - and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies - despite websites maintained by a handful of states to help citizens import medicines more cheaply from Canada, a new study finds.
MONTREAL (CP) - Health Canada has farmed out new technology to treat E. coli bacteria in cattle to a private-sector Quebec company, Nymox Pharmaceutical Corp.
The licensing agreement arises from a collaboration with Dr.
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The lawsuit is the fifth to be filed in Canada since the drug was withdrawn by Merck on Sept. 30.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,
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