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Nine gold medals awarded on February 18 at Turin Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.

Alpine Skiing - Men’s Super-G
Ski alpin - Super-G hommes
Sci alpino - Super-G maschile
Kjetil Andre AAMODT (Norway) | view photo here

Alpine Skiing - Ladies’ Combined
Ski alpin - Combiné dames
Sci alpino - Combinata femminile
Janica KOSTELIC (Croatia) | view photo here

Biathlon - Men’s 12.5 km Pursuit
Biathlon - 12,5 km poursuite hommes
Biathlon - 12,5 km inseguimento maschile
Vincent DEFRASNE (France) | view photo here

Biathlon - Women’s 10 km Pursuit
Biathlon - 10 km poursuite femmes
Biathlon - 10 km inseguimento femminile
Kati WILHELM (Germany) | view photo here

Cross-Country Skiing - Ladies’ 4×5 km Relay
Ski de fond - Relais 4×5 km dames
Sci di fondo - Staffetta 4×5 km femminile
Natalia BARANOVA-MASOLKINA, Larisa KURKINA, Julija TCHEPALOVA, Evgenia MEDVEDEVA-ABRUZOVA (Russia) | view photo here

Ski Jumping - LH Individual Competition
Saut à ski - LH individuel, compétition
Salto - Gara LH individuale
Thomas MORGENSTERN (Austria) | view photo here

Speed Skating - Men’s 1000 m
Patinage de vitesse - 1 000 m hommes
Pattinaggio di velocità - 1.000 m maschile
Shani DAVIS (USA) | view photo here

Short Track Speed Skating - Men’s 1000 m
Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte - 1 000 m hommes
Short track - 1.000 m maschile
AHN Hyun-Soo (Korea) | view photo here

Short Track Speed Skating - Ladies’ 1500 m
Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte - 1 500 m dames
Short track - 1.500 m femminile
JIN Sun-Yu (Korea) | view photo here

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NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury handed Merck & Co. a major victory when it cleared the drug maker of any responsibility in the death of a 53-year-old Florida man who had a heart attack after taking its once popular painkiller Vioxx for less than a month.

This was the second court victory for Merck, and the first in a federal court. The company had argued in this case that plaintiff lawyers never proved any link between Vioxx and the heart attack Richard “Dickey” Irvin suffered in 2001. Merck’s lawyers contended Irvin’s age, gender and diet all put him at risk for heart attacks.

Source: canada.com

Well, it’s still not known definitively whether Vioxx can induce heart attack. Usually people who take Vioxx have other systemic illness and take other medications that may potentially interact with Vioxx, thereby confounding the conclusion regarding the safety of Vioxx.

This is a major problem associated with any NEW drug. There are potential risks involved when taking innovative pharmaceutical therapeutics. Phase III clinical trial is tested on healthy normal human being where a new drug may not have any major harmful side effect. When the drug is released and marketed for phase IV clinical trial, that’s where the problem starting to appear. Phase IV trial targets the public in general without selecting specific age/gender groups. When a new drug is particularly useful for geriatric patients who also take a multitude of various medications, drug-drug interaction and thus harmful side effects may take place. The more number of medications involved, the more complicated the potential drug-drug interaction, and the more difficult to delineate which drugs are the ones that cause the interaction. Thus, in order to know the exact etiology, it can takes tens of years to elucidate the underlying problem. Vioxx is a fairly new recent drug, so its pharmacokinetic profile is certainly less characterized than other older drugs, such as aspirin. Undountedly, there are always risks involved when taking a new invented drug. In order to provide a better quality of care, both doctors and particularly PATIENT THEMSELVES have to consider both risks and benefits of taking a new drug. Informed consent should be given to patients, but sometimes is still insufficient because people may not remember exactly the drug effects their doctors discussed with them during their visits. So whenever something wrong happens with the new drug, it’s not just doctor’s responsibility but also patients’.

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Three gold medals awarded on February 17 at Torino Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. One of them is for Canada. In addition, Canada also won 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Cross-Country Skiing - Men’s 15 km Classical
Ski de fond - 15 km classique hommes
Sci di fondo - 15 km classica maschile
Andrus VEERPALU (Estonia) | view photo here

Snowboard - Ladies’ Snowboard Cross
Surf des neiges - Snowboard Cross dames
Snowboard - Snowboard Cross femminile
Tanja FRIEDEN (Switzerland) | view photo here

Skeleton - Men’s Skeleton
Skeleton - Skeleton hommes
Skeleton - Skeleton maschile
Duff GIBSON (Canada) | view photo here

Canada Medal Today

Snowboard - Ladies’ Snowboard Cross | view photo here
Bronze - Dominique MALTAIS

Skeleton - Men’s Skeleton | view photo here
Gold - Duff GIBSON
Silver - Jeff PAIN

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Duff GIBSON—the second gold medalist recipient in Men’s Skeleton event at Turino Winter Olympic Games.

Currently, Canada has 2 gold medals, 4 silvers, and 5 bronzes.

View Duff Gibson at the podium.

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Eight gold medals awarded on February 16 from Torino Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Today, Canada won two silver and two bronze medals.

Medal Canada

Figure Skating - Men Figure Skating | view photo here
Bronze—Jeffrey BUTTLE

Skeleton - Women’s Skeleton | view photo here
Bronze—Mellisa HOLLINGSWORTH-RICHARDS

Speed Skating - Men’s Team Pursuit | view photo here
Silver—Arne DANKERS, Denny MORRISON, Justin WARSYLEWICZ, Jason PARKER, Steven ELM

Speed Skating - Ladies’ Team Pursuit | view photo here
Silver—Kristina GROVES, Clara HUGHES, Cindy KLASSEN, Christine NESBITT, Shannon REMPEL

Gold Medal

Biathlon - Women’s 7.5 km Sprint
Biathlon - 7,5 km sprint femmes
Biathlon - 7,5 km sprint femminile
Florence BAVEREL-ROBERT (France) | view photo here

Cross-Country Skiing - Ladies’ 10 km Classical
Ski de fond - 10 km classique dames
Sci di fondo - 10 km classica femminile
Kristina SMIGUN (Estonia) | view photo here

Figure Skating - Men Figure Skating
Patinage artistique - Patinage artistique hommes
Pattinaggio di figura - Pattinaggio di figura maschile
Evgeni PLUSHENKO (Russia) | view photo here

Nordic Combined - Team
Combiné nordique - Par équipe
Combinata nordica - Squadre
Michael GRUBER, Mario STECHER, Felix GOTTWALD, Christoph BIELER (Austria) | view photo here

Snowboard - Men’s Snowboard Cross
Surf des neiges - Snowboard Cross hommes
Snowboard - Snowboard Cross maschile
Seth WESCOTT (USA) | view photo here

Skeleton - Women’s Skeleton
Skeleton - Skeleton femmes
Skeleton - Skeleton femminile
Maya PEDERSEN (Switzerland) | view photo here

Speed Skating - Men’s Team Pursuit
Patinage de vitesse - Poursuite par équipe hommes
Pattinaggio di velocità - Inseguimento a squadre maschile
Matteo NESI, Enrico FABRIS, Ippolito SANFRATELLO, Stefano DONAGRANDI (Italy) | view photo here

Speed Skating - Ladies’ Team Pursuit
Patinage de vitesse - Poursuite par équipe dames
Pattinaggio di velocità - Inseguimento a squadre femminile
Daniela ANSCHUETZ THOMS, Anni FRIESINGER, Lucille OPITZ, Claudia PECHSTEIN, Sabine VOELKER (Germany) | view photo here

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