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Medbroadcast: 09-16-2004
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - These are not good days for the people who are trying to sell New York on a machine that lets you inhale a martini instead of drinking it.
First, they had to use fruit juice rather than alcohol at the big debut at a Manhattan nightspot.
BALTIMORE (AP) - One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children's Center said early Thursday.
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin hailed his $41-billion health-care deal with the premiers Thursday, saying it goes far enough to ensure provincial compliance but doesn't go too far by appeasing Quebec.
OTTAWA (CP) - A health system starved by years of chronic under-funding got a significant cash injection Thursday as Paul Martin announced a $41-billion "deal for a decade.
(AP) - Should parents talk to their dying children about death? A Swedish study found that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about death, while some who didn't do so were sorry later.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Search-and-rescue dogs deployed after the 9-11 terrorist attacks suffered cuts and scrapes but no serious short-term effects from exposure to the disaster sites, according to research by the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
OTTAWA (CP) - The first ministers will continue meeting until they reach an agreement on improving medicare, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.
But the negotiating between the prime minister and the premiers is going on behind closed doors.
MONTREAL (CP) - Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will help deal with the impact of chronic diseases that will accompany a rapidly aging world population, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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