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• Healthy living beneficial before, during, and after cancer diagnosis The Canadian Press - 55 minutes ago

  HALIFAX - When Archie McCulloch was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1997, digestive problems forced the Fall River, N.S., man to make some dietary changes.

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  Dengue cases in Philippines rise by 34 percent: government AFP - Sat May 10, 1:27 PM

  MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines recorded 9,176 cases of dengue fever nationwide from January 1 to April 5 this year, an increase of almost 34 percent over the same period last year, the health department said Saturday.

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  SKorea doubles Tamiflu stockpile over bird flu fears AFP - Sat May 10, 7:08 AM

  SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will double its stockpiles of antiviral flu medicine Tamiflu as avian flu has spread through most the country, health officials said Saturday.

• Ont. must require hospitals to start reporting C. difficile right away: union The Canadian Press - Fri May 9, 9:18 PM

  TORONTO - The province is putting more lives at risk by not moving more quickly to require Ontario hospitals to report potentially dangerous infections like C. difficile in the wake of dozens of deaths at a facility in Burlington, Ont., labour critics said Friday.

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  Malawi AIDS deaths drop 10 percent, local free drugs study shows AFP - Fri May 9, 7:10 PM

  PARIS (AFP) - Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of AIDS-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet.

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