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Medbroadcast: 10-30-2004
TORONTO (CP) - Canada's chief public health officer defended on Friday the right of the country's flu vaccine manufacturer to sell surplus supply to the United States.
Dr.
BLOOMSBURY, N.J. (AP) - For a small biopharmaceutical firm that has yet to get a drug on the market, Medarex Inc. has been keeping some impressive company.
Top drugmakers and biotech firms, from Johnson & Johnson to Amgen Inc.
TORONTO (CP) - It will be voters across Canada who ultimately decide whether provinces and territories are successful in their efforts to reduce hospital wait times, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Friday.
TORONTO (CP) - Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will inspect the Ste-Foy, Que., flu vaccine production plant of ID Biomedical next week in a bid to approve the company's surplus vaccine for importation to the United States.
MONTREAL (CP) - Public-health experts warned Thursday of a lack of private hospital rooms, resources and even hand-washing measures to fight the deadly C. difficile outbreak.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Atascaderos' rats ran out the cats, sniffed at poison and scared off bounty hunters.
The rodents have adjusted so well to all attempts to exterminate them one Mexican state official said villagers are just going to have to learn to live with them.
CHICAGO (AP) - Missouri has joined Illinois and Wisconsin in a new drug-import program to make cheaper prescription drugs available from Canada and Europe despite a U.S. federal ban on the imports.
Missouri Gov. Bob Holden appeared with Gov.
MONTREAL (CP) - A public-health expert warned Thursday there aren't enough private hospital rooms to isolate patients infected with the deadly C. difficile bacterium.
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