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• Efforts needed to integrate aging population into society, conference told The Canadian Press - 23 minutes ago

  MONTREAL - The aging population has a contribution to make to society and efforts are needed to ensure they are not left out, Irene Hoskins, president of the International Federation on Aging, said at a conference Sunday.

• Weekly diabetes drug provides better blood sugar control, spurs weight loss The Canadian Press - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  TORONTO - A once-a-week injectable diabetes drug appears to lower blood sugar somewhat better than the same drug injected twice daily, creating promise that the new formulation may be a more useful part of a Type 2 diabetes control regime, a new study suggests.

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  Cholera epidemic spreads in Guinea-Bissau, stable in Guinea: WHO AFP - Sun Sep 7, 5:07 PM

  DAKAR (AFP) - A cholera epidemic which has claimed 90 lives to-date in Guinea Bissau, with more than 3,900 people suffering from the disease, is spreading but no new cases have been reported from neighbouring Guinea, the WHO said Sunday.

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  Bulgaria's road carnage drains blood banks, boosts illegal blood trade AFP - Sun Sep 7, 3:51 PM

  SOFIA (AFP) - The high number of injuries from car accidents on Bulgarian roads this summer has drained the blood banks, boosting an already existing illegal blood trade, according to doctors.

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  Alarm as Indonesia thumbs nose at West over bird flu AFP - Sun Sep 7, 12:48 AM

  JAKARTA (AFP) - With nearly half the world's human bird flu deaths, concern is building over Indonesia's refusal to share virus samples and its health minister's increasingly strident denunciations of global "conspiracies".

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