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Medbroadcast: 10-12-2004
PUNE, India (AP) - More than 300 scientists from around the world shared information on tracking and curbing the cross-border spread of viruses as they met in India for a three-day seminar ending Wednesday.
TORONTO (CP) - Stringent guidelines are needed to ensure there is no financial conflict of interest when doctors are paid to take part in patient studies to test experimental drugs or other treatments, an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says.
TORONTO (CP) - Too much turkey got you thinking about a quickie diet?
Think again, say the champions of the no-bread craze.
EDMONTON (CP) - Public health officials on the Prairies are already preparing for next year's West Nile virus season, even though they're perplexed by the way the disease performed this year.
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.
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