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Nations to work together to limit flu risk
Oct 7 2005 9:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - As delegations from around the globe discussed how to limit the threat of a bird flu pandemic, President Bush talked with drug company executives on Friday about what it would take to speed up production of a vaccine.
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Cold medicine makers getting creative
Oct 7 2005 9:48PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Pocket-size throat sprays. Thin strips that melt in your mouth. Freezer pops. Like Mary Poppins with her spoonful of sugar, the makers of cold remedies are offering creative ways to help the medicine go down.
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17 die of Legionnaire's disease in Canada
Oct 7 2005 7:45PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - An elderly woman died Friday of an apparent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at an Ontario nursing home, bringing to 17 the number of people fatally infected by the disease at the facility.
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Three ducks dead in Romania; bird flu eyed
Oct 7 2005 7:39PM (CT)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Three domestic ducks have died of bird flu in eastern Romania, but authorities said Friday they had not confirmed whether the birds were infected by the H5N1 strain that experts are tracking for fear it could mutate and spawn a human flu pandemic.
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Merck: Cervical cancer vaccine effective
Oct 7 2005 7:37PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The first major study of an experimental vaccine to prevent cervical cancer found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the disease and lesions likely to turn cancerous, the drugmaker Merck & Co. said Thursday. Its shares rose nearly 6 percent.
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St. Jude warns about background radiation
Oct 7 2005 3:46PM (CT)
LITTLE CANADA, Minn. (AP) - Medical device maker St. Jude Medical Inc. said Friday that background radiation can cause some of its older implantable defibrillators to lose power. The company said it knows of no serious injuries or deaths caused by the problem.
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Canadian officials ID mystery illness
Oct 7 2005 11:04AM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Toronto health officials on Thursday said Legionnaires' disease was likely the cause of 16 deaths at a Toronto nursing home and, while relieved they had found the culprit, warned more deaths were possible before the bacteria was fully contained.
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Italian abortion pill angers Vatican
Oct 7 2005 9:41AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Italy's first experiment with the abortion pill RU-486 is sparking controversy in this overwhelmingly Catholic country, with the Vatican paper condemning the experiment this week as an "act against life."
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