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Police warn of - trickling effect' of newer drugs
CORY HURLEY The Western Star CORNER BROOK - Field workers of Youth, Child and Family Services received a lesson on street drugs Thursday to not only help protect young people, but also themselves.
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Foreign plants cause problems for travelers
A curtain of kudzu covers a tree in Cumberland Gap National Historic Park outside Middlesboro, Ky.
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Poor medicine for poor people
New field research shows that a third of anti-malaria drugs collected in six African cities fail at least one quality test, and aid agencies continue to fund untested, substandard drugs.
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New Safety Mall From MSDSonline Simplifies PPE Compliance
In an effort to help companies comply with a new rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding employer payment for personal protective equipment , MSDSonline, a leader in on-demand ...
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Ont. reinstates funding for sex-change operations
Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday the province plans to reinstate funding for sex-change surgery nearly a decade after the Conservatives stopped covering the procedure.
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Straight talk about health care myths
Fiction doesn't become fact through repetition. Keep that in mind next time you hear a politician breathlessly decry the horrors of the American health care system and then explain how he intends to fix it.
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Canadian drug spending rises to $27B
Spending on prescribed and over-the-counter drugs in Canada outpaced overall health spending last year, and grew faster than the rate of inflation, new figures show.
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Quebecers denied easy access to morning-after pill 2 hours ago
The emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, was approved yesterday as an over-the-counter drug across the country - except in Quebec.
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