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Medbroadcast: 09-15-2004
TORONTO (CP) - Aboriginals have double the risk of developing kidney failure but less than half the likelihood of receiving a kidney transplant compared with Caucasian Canadians, a study of dialysis patients in three western provinces suggests.
CALGARY (CP) - Just days after Ottawa pledged millions in aid for more slaughterhouses to deal with the glut of cattle from the mad cow crisis, opponents of an abattoir proposed for northeast Calgary won a reprieve.
OTTAWA (CP) - People allergic to wheat, egg or sesame seed are being warned away from eating chicken friccasee manufactured by Perl's Meat Products.
NEW YORK (AP) - A couple whose embryo was mistakenly implanted into an unwitting surrogate mother settled a lawsuit Monday against the fertility clinic doctor who made the mistake.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Dutch professor became the first recipient of a new Swedish science prize in the field of medical education research, the awarding body said Monday.
The Prize for Research in Medical Education 2004, worth 50,000 euros ($79,100 Cdn), was awarded to Prof.
OTTAWA (CP) - The way things are going, the first ministers summit on health won't even produce a common method for measuring waiting lists, let alone cutting them.
BALDWIN, Ga. (AP) - In the early 1990s, Fieldale Farms had a troubling problem: Employee heart attacks, at an average cost of $50,000 US apiece, were quickly making insurance unaffordable for the small chicken processing company.
TOKYO (AP) - Japan has confirmed a 12th case of mad cow disease, an official said Monday - the third case of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year.
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