Ontario unveils childhood vaccine plan
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The Ontario government unveiled the details of the second phase of its childhood immunization program Tuesday, becoming one of the few provinces that immunizes children free of charge against chicken pox and meningitis.
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The government is set to unveil standards for the healthcare of children and adolescents on Wednesday.
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OTTAWAâA plan to open nine new or expanded MRI sites will help reduce waiting times in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday.
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Schoolgirls in England will be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, ministers are set to announce.
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TORONTO, June 19 -- Ontario on Tuesday offered financial incentives to encourage production of "green" cars and fuels, the latest sign of competition among Canada's provinces to address global warming.
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TORONTO - Ontario will get an additional $7 billion for health care under the agreement reached, early Thursday morning, between the prime minister and the premiers and territorial leaders.
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Michigan&#39;s top health agency is overseeing the distribution of 230,000 new doses of flu vaccine, to get shots to high-risk people in the next three weeks.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are set to present a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out over $5 billion a year in new health-care money.
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Florida Health Secretary John Agwunobi says the vaccine for children will go to counties with the most unmet needs first. It&#39;s expected to arrive in local health departments the first part of next week.
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Scientists have made important progress in their quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and reduce the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.
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LONDON -- Scientists have made important progress in the quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and slash the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  will propose Wednesday giving $1.8 billion over the next 15  years to a campaign to get life-saving vaccines to millions of  children in poor countries.
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The province&#39;s crackdown on smoking will be launched tonight with a series of concerts across Ontario. Health Minister George Smitherman&#39;s first step is an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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VANCOUVER - The Canadian government has ordered 145,000 extra doses of flu vaccine from ID Biomedical, expected to be delivered sometime next week.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced a new plan to curb the use of toxic chemicals in Canada.  The plan covers compounds that were recently reviewed for their toxicity levels.
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The Ontario provincial government said  on Wednesday it planned to spend C$150 million to attract  biopharmaceutical research to Canada's most populous province.
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New rules are coming that will require Ontario&#39;s 600 nursing home to have nurses on site and publish &quot;scorecards&quot; on the care they offer.