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  657 mln dlr compensation deal for Ground Zero workers AFP - 59 minutes ago

  NEW YORK (AFP) - More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.

• US asks for more time to move ahead or drop case against Canadian HGH doctor's assistant The Canadian Press - Thu Mar 11, 8:08 PM

  The U.S. government is asking a New York court for more time to decide whether to pursue or drop its case against a Canadian doctor's assistant accused of smuggling human growth hormone into the United States.

• S.W.Ont. doctor who performed mistaken mastectomies has privileges restored The Canadian Press - Thu Mar 11, 8:02 PM

  WINDSOR, Ont. - A doctor who performed mistaken mastectomies at a southwestern Ontario hospital had her privileges restored Thursday, after the hospital imposed conditions it determined would ensure patients are not put at risk.

• Two more senior lab officials in N.L. resign amid testing errors The Canadian Press - Thu Mar 11, 5:16 PM

  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Two more senior laboratory officials have resigned their posts with Newfoundland's largest health authority following the disclosure of drug testing errors.

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  Sequencing of patients' genomes offers new hope: studies AFP - Thu Mar 11, 1:06 PM

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US researchers have decoded the entire genome of patients to identify the root cause of their diseases paving the way towards individual genomic treatments, according to newly published studies.

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