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Medbroadcast: 10-14-2004
OTTAWA (CP) - Canadians ate more fruit in 2003 but still loved their spuds and sampled Chinese cabbage too, says Statistics Canada.
Although traditional fruits and vegetables were still the main choice, tropical and foreign produce were taking hold, the agency said Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - Smoking should be banned in private cars that carry children, the Ontario Medical Association said Thursday, though the province says it has no intention of doing so.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.
TORONTO (CP) - An Afghan boy who came to Canada for life-saving heart surgery was to be discharged after recovering from heart-valve surgery, the Hospital for Sick Children said Wednesday.
Nine-year-old Djamshid Popal waited months for his strength to improve for an Oct.
KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - Health officials in the B.C. Interior issued a public warning Wednesday after a restaurant worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A.
WASHINGTON (CP) - John Kerry accused President George W. Bush in their final debate Wednesday of turning "his back on the wellness of America" and blocking cheaper prescription drug imports from Canada.
CHICAGO (AP) - A switch in the type of polio vaccine recommended for use in the United States appears to have wiped out U.S. cases of the disease caused by the vaccine itself, the government says.
In 2000, U.S.
LONDON (AP) - In an effort to change customers' perception of McDonald's, the fast-food giant says it will temporarily drop its famous Golden Arches logo in advertisements in Britain beginning Friday, replacing it with a yellow question mark.
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