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BERLIN (Reuters) – Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days...
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days...
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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Bettie the beagle, a detector dog for U.S. Customs and...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Thursday it had found a new case of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu in a flock of about 150 wild swans in the western Xinjiang region. One had died and...
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By Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) – UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer,...
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Two men in Brazil are believed to have died from drinking local craft...
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By Ruhi Soni and Vishwadha Chander Advocating abstinence to teens hasn’t proven very effective with regard to sex, and the same is likely to be true for sexting, researchers say. So it may be time to at least arm teens...
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By Linda Carroll Most websites that provide information about probiotics are unreliable and often tout unproven health benefits, a new study finds. After examining the first 150 websites turned up by a Google search, researchers...
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By Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) – Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest...
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By Lisa Rapaport People who have trouble falling asleep may be at increased risk of developing cognitive problems or dementia than their counterparts who sleep well, a research review suggests. Researchers examined data on 51...
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By Se Young Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department warned Americans in China about an outbreak of pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan believed to be caused by a new strain of coronavirus, which has killed one...
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia has seen an outbreak of the pig disease African swine fever (ASF) in wild boars in the east of the country, close to the country’s borders with Bulgaria and Romania, the state Tanjug news...
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By Dmitriy Turlyun SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia (Reuters) – When Alexei Voronenkov’s 70-year-old mother passed away, he paid to have her brain frozen and stored in the hope breakthroughs in science will one day be able to...
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai health officials are stepping up monitoring and inspection at its airports for the new mystery virus from China ahead of Lunar New Year, when Chinese visitors flock to the...
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A second outbreak of bird flu has been found at a large duck farm in eastern Hungary, the National Food Chain Safety Authority (NEBIH) said on Wednesday, two days after the first such case in the...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Romania has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a farm in the northern part of the country, the first such outbreak in nearly three years, the World Organisation for...
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By Saumya Joseph and Vishwadha Chander (Reuters) – Nektar Therapeutics said on Tuesday it was withdrawing the application for its opioid painkiller for adults with chronic low back pain, after a U.S. Food and Drug...
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(Reuters) – Juul Labs Inc confirmed on Tuesday it will stop selling its fruit-flavored...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Women who have sex at least once a month have a lower risk of entering menopause early than women with less active sex lives, scientists have found in research which they say points to a form of...
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By Lisa Rapaport People who smoke or have recently quit have higher odds of being severely...
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By Linda Carroll Changes in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) procedures meant to speed...
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