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Medbroadcast: 10-26-2004
CALGARY (CP) - Having a happy marriage may help workers cope with pressure cooker stress at the office, a new study suggests.
DENVER (AP) - A man who donated a kidney to a Colorado man he met through a website says he should be considered "a hero," and insists his past - including more than $8,000 US in overdue child support payments - has nothing to do with his decision to help.
VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. man is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to allow a class action suit alleging Imperial Tobacco's use of "light" designations on cigarettes is misleading and harmful.
The suit is brought by Kenneth Knight of Roberts Creek, B.C.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Roxy Cate has just finished a 45-minute cyclocross race: furiously pedalling through mucky turns and along rain-soaked grassy straightaways, running several times up a nearly vertical hill with her bike slung over her shoulder, and leaping with it over wooden barriers.
TORONTO (CP) - The organization that insures Canadian doctors is urging them to arm themselves legally if they are giving flu shots to Americans crossing the border because of vaccine shortages in the United States.
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - Hundreds of Medicare patients rolled down their windows and rolled up their sleeves Monday to get a flu shot while sitting in their cars at a drive-thru clinic.
CALGARY (CP) - Medical robots will increasingly hold the surgical key for heart patients living in remote or isolated communities, says a top cardiologist.
OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberal government's proposed national child care plan could spark another ugly round of federal-provincial squabbling, says a researcher involved in an international report on Canada's "dismal" patchwork of programs.
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