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Medbroadcast: 10-13-2004
BEIJING (AP) - The Health Ministry says in a report that 200 million Chinese are overweight, a sign that rising incomes are helping to expand waistlines.
More than 160 million Chinese have high blood pressure and 20 million suffer from diabetes, the ministry said.
TORONTO (CP) - U.S. health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada's major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed Tuesday.
At stake are an estimated 1.
DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - An elderly Victoria woman charged with helping two women commit suicide told an undercover RCMP officer she was there when one of the women took her own life, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) - Kristin Armstrong, ex-wife of Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, will run in the New York City Marathon next month to raise money for her charity.
TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's Liberals have misspent millions in federal funds earmarked for victims of hepatitis C, the New Democrats charged Tuesday as they pressed for a detailed accounting of how the money was spent.
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.
NEW YORK (AP) - With a button pinned to her jacket that read "Drug Companies Make Me Sick," Mildred Fruhling, 76, prepared Tuesday to board a train to Canada to buy the medicine she and her husband need.
The prescription drugs are available at home in Edison, N.J.
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.
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