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Medbroadcast: 10-15-2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - All antidepressants must carry a "black box" warning, the government's strongest safety alert, linking the drugs to increased suicidal thoughts and behaviour among children and teens taking them, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - A woman who attended a former nun's suicide described Thursday how she took the woman's cat out of the room because the animal seemed to know her owner was going to die.
TORONTO (CP) - When President George W. Bush spoke of importing Canadian flu vaccine during Wednesday's election debate, many in the U.S.
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) - It appears the new agreement between Ontario's 21,000 doctors and the province's Liberal government is far more lucrative than the government will admit to.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have long sought a vaginal gel that women could apply before sex to block the AIDS virus. Now they've found a new lead - a chemical specially designed to thwart the way HIV penetrates women's cells.
EDMONTON (CP) - Patient safety would improve if health workers who report hospital errors were protected from legal action, says a new report.
TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's chief medical officer of health will be more independent and assume some ministerial powers under proposed legislation, the provincial health minister said Thursday.
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