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Medbroadcast: 10-19-2004
CHICAGO (AP) - Yoga and dance workshops for kids and parents at a museum. Free bike locks to encourage students to cycle to school. A food bank that offers fitness workouts along with hot meals for children.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The flu-shot shortage makes it more imperative for elderly Americans to get a second, often overlooked vaccine that protects against a type of pneumonia germ that's a common complication of influenza.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.
OTTAWA (CP) - It's not seniors who are flocking to hospital emergency rooms. People aged 15 to 24 of both sexes were most likely to use emergency services in 2003, says Statistics Canada.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new national study will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Twenty-three tigers have died from avian flu at a private zoo in Thailand after being fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease, a government official said Tuesday.
EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said Monday he weighed the pros and cons of firing Health Minister Gary Mar over controversy caused by the minister's friend and former aide.
Klein said he decided Mar was too valuable to cut loose.
TORONTO (CP) - Cross-border Internet pharmacies threaten to drain precious supplies needed to treat sick Canadians and could lead to a "full-scale disaster" for the health system, a coalition of groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients warned Monday.
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