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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – A unique drug, “Glivec” (STI571) produced and supplied by Novartis, has shown the firm evidence that for the first time, patients...
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TORONTO — Researchers at the University of Calgary have identified a new pain receptor involved in the acute pain suffered by people with arthritis...
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MONTREAL – One of Canada’s foremost novelists, Mordecai Richler, died of cancer Tuesday at age 70. A statement issued by his family said his...
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TORONTO – Contradicting the advice women have been getting for years, a government-funded medical advisory panel recommended this week that doctors stop routinely advising...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At the research laboratories named in honor of Terry Fox, there were no formal ceremonies Thursday to mark the 20th...
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MONTREAL — Yvonne Dionne, one of three remaining Dionne quintuplets, died Saturday of cancer, her family said in a statement. She was 67. The...
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OTTAWA — Cigarette prices jump $4 a carton in several provinces Friday as part of a new federal tobacco strategy that also commits an...
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NEW YORK – Following up on Katie Couric’s much-discussed colonoscopy last year, and in an effort to continue calling attention to the country’s colon...
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LONDON (djc) — Supermodel Christy Turlington has announced that she is suffering from early-stage emphysema, despite the fact that she gave up smoking over...
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BERLIN (dpa) – When Angelo Colombo, a painter and amateur boxer, fell off a roof and broke his spine in 1995, doctors told him...