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Medbroadcast: 10-17-2004
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display to get a flu shot that he wasn't able to receive at five other clinics.
"I've had five bypasses and six stents in me now.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Ottawa will not speed the creation of a national pharmacare program to deal with the growing flood of Americans who come to Canada to buy up supplies of cheaper prescription drugs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The clues aren't as obvious as Pinocchio's nose, but there's a small group of individuals who can detect the subtle signs that people reveal when they lie.
TORONTO (CP) - With a massive shortage of influenza vaccine in the United States, Americans living near the border may be contemplating a cross-border trip for a flu shot this fall.
ATLANTA (AP) - No more math required to figure out how many calories are in that big bottle of Coca-Cola. Revised labels will calculate it for you starting next year, the company said Friday.
The labels planned by Coca-Cola Co.
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.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Provincial health ministers pounced on a bone tossed out of the U.S. presidential debate - cross-border shopping for prescription drugs - holding it up Friday as more proof that Canada needs a national Pharmacare program.
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.
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