After opioid overdose, poor teens rarely get addiction treatment
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Less than one third of teens and young adults who...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Less than one third of teens and young adults who...
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By Manas Mishra (Reuters) – Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Thursday chief executive officer would step down and it plans to divest two of its women’s health drugs, bowing to pressure from investor Caligan Partners...
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By Kate Kelland and Se Young Lee A cluster of more than 50 pneumonia cases in China’s...
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(Reuters) – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Thursday its experimental treatment for a very rare genetic bone disorder showed a nearly 90% reduction in new lesions compared to placebo, in a mid-stage study. The...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Poland recorded 55 outbreaks of African swine fever in wild boar near the...
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By Gergely Szakacs and Alicja Ptak BUDAPEST/WARSAW (Reuters) – Eastern Europe is a new...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A new type of therapy using feces and fake rubber hands...
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By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters Health) – In spite of protections baked into the Affordable Care Act, women who have health insurance through their employer may pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to have a baby in the...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Rural seniors hospitalized for certain life-threatening conditions are more likely than city-dwelling peers to die within a month of being discharged to an aftercare facility, a new...
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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – As a method for reducing health costs and improving care...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it approved Merck &...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Many people worry about inheriting health problems from their parents, but a new approach to analyzing genetic contributions to disease risk suggests that for most diseases, commercial...
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian veterinary authorities said on Wednesday they would cull 39,656 pigs after detecting an outbreak of African swine fever at a farm in the northeast, the second industrial farm in the country to...
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By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters Health) – Cancer death rates in the United States fell 2.2% from 2016 to 2017 – the largest single-year drop ever recorded – fueled in large part by progress against lung cancer,...
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By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters Health) – Cancer deaths in the United States fell 2.2% from...
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PARIS (Reuters) – India has reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm in the central state of Chhattisgarh, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday, citing...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court jailed on Wednesday the founder of a local traditional Chinese medicine firm for running a pyramid scheme, after the death of a young girl with cancer was linked to the company in an...
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Eight Chinese patients diagnosed with an unidentified viral pneumonia were released from hospital on Wednesday after showing no signs of fever for several days, state-owned CCTV reported. The...
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(Reuters) – Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc posted a 24.8% drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday, hurt by higher costs related to its acquisition of stores from rival Rite Aid Corp Net income attributable to...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said an H5N6 avian flu virus outbreak has been detected in swans in the western region of Xinjiang. Fifteen out of a group of 150 swans had died from the virus and...
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