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Medbroadcast: 09-20-2004
(CP) - Hundreds of thousands of Canadians took to the streets Sunday to raise money for cancer research in what appeared to be a record-breaking year for The Terry Fox Run.
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Up to 75 per cent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers, according to a study by the Chinese Red Cross.
TORONTO (CP) - A new report prepared for Ontario's chiropractors concludes that forcing patients to pay out of their own pockets for chiropractic treatment could end up costing the province's taxpayers as much as $125 million a year.
(AP) - With increasing rates of obesity among North Americans putting the focus on weight loss, scant attention is paid to the other side of the scale - underweight people who are trying to put on pounds.
Being underweight is not a common problem.
NEW YORK (AP) - Christy Jones says her idea for a business to freeze women's eggs came when her own biological clock alarm rang at age 32.
It was 2002, and two of her close friends were having trouble getting pregnant.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The spread of HIV/AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned Monday.
(AP) - There wasn't any doubt six years ago that Doug Jensen had cancer. The Oregon engineer's blood was clogged with the immature cells that are sure signs of leukemia. Treatment with a new wonder drug, Gleevec, made them completely disappear.
OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Momo's Veggie Kitchen Limited are warning people with allergies to wheat not to consume MVK "Gluten Free" Mo'Steak Veggie Steak.
The affected product may contain wheat which is not declared on the label.
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