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Head of Canada's new public health agency named

G: Canada gets its own CDC!

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WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Paul Martin introduced Dr. David Butler-Jones on Friday as Canada's first-ever chief public health officer as part of a national plan to prepare for health crises.

Butler-Jones was the former chief medical officer in Saskatchewan from 1995 to 2002. He was also a member of the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health, which called for a national public health body.

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New Noninvasive Test for BSE

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G: Interesting way to test for Mad cow via secondary characteristics, rather than popping open the person's brain. I wonder what's the S/N ratio is?

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THE world's first test for the human form of mad cow disease has been perfected in Manchester and is set to be available to doctors next year.

Experts at the Manchester Royal Infirmary have invented a simple, painless heart test which takes just ten minutes to find out whether patients have the fatal brain-wasting condition variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, known as vCJD.

After two years of successful human and cattle trials on the heart-rate monitor, it is now being developed by a firm who say that it could be put into action as early as next year.
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Further Reading:
TSEnse Diagnostics