Japan hepatitis patients reject government aid plan
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Japanese hepatitis patients on Thursday rejected a government compensation proposal in a high-profile scandal over tainted blood, a move that could further erode Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's falling support rate.
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Thousands of Canadians who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood transfusions have learned the previous government overturned a previous decision not to compensate them.
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The assembly government hits back at a doctor's claim that health staff 'weep in despair' over Welsh waiting lists.
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Two local hospitals in SW. China counties get free economic aid from Japan    KUNMING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two township hospitals in the mountainous areas of Southwest China's Yunnan Province will receive free financial aid from Japan.
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Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim said  on Thursday it expects no impact on its AIDS drug donation  program for poor countries from a U.S. regulatory warning that  its Viramune medicine could cause deadly liver damage.
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The doctor rejected his staff&#39;s assessment that Uganda site was not qualified to continue drug research. By John Solomon. WASHINGTON -- The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US
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Japan will go ahead with food aid to  North Korea despite its dissatisfaction with Pyongyang's  failure to clarify the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped  decades ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on  Wednesday.
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Japan has rejected former world chess champion Bobby Fischer&#39;s demand for protection as a political refugee, and has issued an order to deport him.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres has criticised pharmaceutical companies for failing to offer suitable life-extending drugs for children with HIV/AIDS in poor countries.
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Tainted-blood victims with hepatitis C are outraged at a new Ontario government program to prevent and treat their deadly illness, saying it falls millions short of the money they were promised years ago.
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A group of Japanese who sued the government and drug makers after being infected with potentially deadly hepatitis C from tainted blood products rejected a court-proposed settlement on Thursday.
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OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today rejected claims that funds would be taken from the states to pay for free hospital care for people aged 75 and over.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Anti-whaling nations said on Monday they oppose Japan's proposal to permit whale hunting in its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions on other issues.
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For years, the government has failed to prepare adequately for an influenza pandemic and has no concrete plans for distributing scarce vaccine to people at high risk in such an emergency, a federal health care analyst said yesterday.
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Japan's two largest parties failed to agree Tuesday on continuing a naval mission in the Indian Ocean, dealing a setback to the government which has pledged to support the US-led "war on terror".
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Federal officials flatly rejected the $12-billion-plus price tag attached Friday to the provinces&#39;s prescription for fixing Canada&#39;s health care system.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's doctors overwhelmingly rejected a much-touted fee agreement with the provincial government on Saturday, a major setback for planned health-care reforms in the province with no immediate plan to resume negotiations.