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Medbroadcast: 09-24-2004
OTTAWA (CP) - A provincial plan to open nine new MRI testing facilities and buy back private clinics will help put the brakes on health-care privatization and mean shorter wait times for patients, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday.
WINNIPEG (CP) - A Saskatchewan public health expert has been appointed to head the new Public Health Agency of Canada, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A government epidemiologist said Thursday that his bosses asked him to soften his recommendation that antidepressant use by children be discouraged because of increased suicidal behaviour among young people who took the drugs.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes.
BEIJING (AP) - An outbreak of food poisoning at a school in southeastern China sickened 48 students, and 15 of them were hospitalized, a news report said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified Thursday that cigarette makers manipulated nicotine to keep smokers addicted, a central allegation in the U.S. government's $280-billion lawsuit against the industry.
TORONTO (CP) - A U.S. company that charges up to $200 for medical tests covered by medicare should understand "they're not welcome here," Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday.
LONDON (AP) - It has long been suspected that man's best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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