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Medbroadcast: 10-23-2004
VICTORIA (CP) - Advocates for the elderly say Canada urgently needs a national strategy on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.
TORONTO (CP) - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country's blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - A Victoria woman charged with helping two others commit suicide told an undercover RCMP officer she held one of the women's hands when she died and that her death was fast and painless.
GENEVA (AP) - Ireland - like the United States - is struggling to find enough flu vaccine following the shutdown of a British factory, but other European countries mostly have no shortages, an Associated Press survey found Thursday.
PARIS (AP) - A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an 'epidemic' that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 25 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
TORONTO (CP) - The decision by a team of U.S. researchers to ease bio-security precautions for a reconstituted version of the 1918 pandemic flu virus - the most lethal killing machine in viral history - is sparking debate within the international scientific community.
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