Paying for blood plasma raises new questions

It was an 'invitation only' meeting at a downtown Toronto hotel. The media were banished to the hallway. Inside, a handpicked group of people gathered, with no one sure who else was around the table. There was no official agenda, no list of the names...

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Compounding pharmacies to be federally inspected under U.S. bill

Large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards, under a new Senate proposal introduced Friday. The draft bill is the first effort...

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Apotex warned by U.S. to raise quality control standards

Canadian generic drug maker Apotex Inc.'s exports to the United States could be blocked if the company doesn't correct quality control problems, according to a warning letter from a U.S. regulator. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website includes...

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Boy, 4, infected with H7N9 bird flu after father

Chinese health officials say the 4-year-old son of a man infected with a new strain of bird flu has also caught the virus. Shandong province's health department says there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission, and that the boy is in stable...

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Compounding pharmacies to be federally inspected under U.S. bill

Large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards, under a new Senate proposal introduced Friday. The draft bill is the first effort...

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HIV vaccine trial fails in U.S.

The latest bad news in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine: The U.S. government halted a large study, saying the experimental shots are not preventing HIV infection. Nor did the shots reduce the amount of the AIDS virus in the blood when people who'd been...

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Apotex warned by U.S. to raise quality control standards

Canadian generic drug maker Apotex Inc.'s exports to the United States could be blocked if the company doesn't correct quality control problems, according to a warning letter from a U.S. regulator. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website includes...

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MacNeil didn't die from hospital infection, says authority

Beloved Canadian singer Rita MacNeil did not die from a hospital-acquired infection, the Cape Breton District Health Authority said in response to a now-corrected article published in the Globe and Mail newspaper on Friday. The 68-year-old singer died...

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Paying for blood plasma raises new questions

It was an 'invitation only' meeting at a downtown Toronto hotel. The media were banished to the hallway. Inside, a handpicked group of people gathered, with no one sure who else was around the table. There was no official agenda, no list of the names...

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Chemotherapy outsourcing done by hospitals across Canada

Hospitals in at least three provinces besides Ontario and New Brunswick outsource their chemotherapy preparation. After about 1,200 people in New Brunswick and Ontario received lower-than-intended doses of the chemotherapy drugs cyclophosphamide and...

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New bird flu show signs of direct jump to humans

There's evidence the new H7N9 bird flu virus is transmitted from chickens at poultry markets in China to humans, a small study suggests. In Thursday's online issue of the medical journal The Lancet, researchers gave some of the first detailed information...

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Compounding pharmacies to be federally inspected under U.S. bill

Large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards, under a new Senate proposal introduced Friday. The draft bill is the first effort...

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Taiwan reports 1st case of H7N9 bird flu in man working in China

Taiwan has confirmed its first case of a new strain of bird flu. Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday that a 53-year-old man became sick with the H7N9 bird flu virus after returning from working in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu...

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Hospitals slow to learn from own mistakes

Anyone who has experienced the chaotic environment of a hospital has an acute sense of the many things that can go wrong. In a typical visit, most patients encounter dozens of small oversights — from a misspelled name on a medical chart to a misscheduled...

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Paying for blood plasma raises new questions

It was an 'invitation only' meeting at a downtown Toronto hotel. The media were banished to the hallway. Inside, a handpicked group of people gathered, with no one sure who else was around the table. There was no official agenda, no list of the names...

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