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Medbroadcast: 09-22-2004
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A farm near the Cambodian capital was closed after about 2,300 chickens died of Avian flu - apparently the first cases of the disease in the country following an epidemic in Asia earlier this year.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Patrick Deuel is on a diet. He's down to about 700 pounds now. He hopes to lose 400 more.
When he entered the hospital in Sioux Falls, he weighed more than half a ton - a disaster Deuel blames on bad genes and his early years in the restaurant business.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Tough times in the Internet pharmacy industry have prompted one of its biggest players to streamline Canadian operations by moving about 30 high-paying jobs to Calgary from Winnipeg.
Daren Jorgenson says he's confident the move will help Canadameds.
CALGARY (CP) - Alberta's fabled rat patrol has been getting a hand from shovel-wielding homeowners after dozens of rodents were dumped in a Calgary neighbourhood, threatening the province's rat-free status.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly one of every eight passenger airliners tested by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency carried drinking water that fails agency standards because it contains coliform bacteria, the agency said.
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says he will do whatever it takes to help the Innu of Labrador and other aboriginal communities deal with health and social problems plaguing some of them.
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government is putting Canadian food producers on a strict carbohydrate labelling diet that could knock a number of new product lines off grocery store shelves next year.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Tough times in the Internet pharmacy industry have prompted one of its biggest players to streamline Canadian operations by moving about 30 high-paying jobs to Calgary from Winnipeg.
Daren Jorgenson says he's confident the move will help Canadadrugs.
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