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VICKIE CHACHERE Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Before she was the severely brain-damaged patient at the centre of a legal dispute over whether she should live or die, Terri Schiavo was a young woman who desperately wanted to be thin. At 26, she was strikingly beautiful with delicate features. ...More -

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Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - LONDON (CP) - Britain's Food Standards Agency on Thursday extended a list of foods that could be contaminated with a dye linked to cancer. ...More -

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TINI TRAN Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - The international community needs to spend at least $100 million US to combat bird flu - five times more than the "glaringly insufficient" amount provided last year, UN officials said Thursday The call for funding came after international health ...More -

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Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - VANCOUVER (CP) - One of British Columbia's biggest health unions now has a former high-profile national labour leader as its new secretary-business manager. ...More -

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Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - BEIJING (AP) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton signed an agreement with China on Wednesday to provide a year's supply of AIDS drugs to 200 children to help Beijing battle the disease. ...More -

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Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - TORONTO (CP) - Separation surgery on conjoined twins from Zimbabwe has been set for March after the children caught a respiratory infection, delaying the previously scheduled February surgery, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said Wednesday. ...More -

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Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - A Florida judge extended a stay Wednesday keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place, saying he needs time to decide whether her husband, who wants to let her die, is fit to be her guardian. ...More -

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RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT - WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid dire warnings of an Asian pandemic, the U.S. government is preparing to test an experimental avian flu vaccine and is increasing disease surveillance in hopes of reducing the toll from any eventual American outbreak. ...More