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Medbroadcast: 09-27-2004
OTTAWA (CP) - Cancer and diseases of the circulatory system remain the biggest killers in Canada, although diabetes deaths are rising, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
OTTAWA (CP) - A Canadian boy born in 2002 could expect to live to 77.2 years of age, a record high, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
The agency said life expectancy at birth for Canadian males rose 0.2 years, about two and a half months, from 2001.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman is suffering from bird flu, the second confirmed human case of the disease since the country's latest outbreak started in July.
LONDON (AP) - Dr. Katharina Dalton, a gynecologist who did pioneering research on premenstrual syndrome and was said to have coined the term, has died. She was 87.
Dalton died Sept. 17 in Poole, Dorset, her family said. The family did not specify the cause of death.
HEADINGLEY, Man. (CP) - For much of the last year, Jonathon Barkley has fled Winnipeg's municipal smoking bylaw by driving a few minutes west to a bar in Headingley to enjoy a cigarette with his lunch.
FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospital workers are adopting an in-your-face strategy in their fight for higher wages by saying they will begin their strike Monday in Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding.
CHICAGO (AP) - Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
NAROK, Kenya (AP) - Jonathan Mwanza was once a powerful man in this rural town - a county councillor and lifetime member of Kenya's former ruling party. His hefty build spoke of wealth and authority.
That was before he contracted HIV.
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