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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has shelved a proposal to drastically cut the level of nicotine in cigarettes, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing a regulatory document. Shares of tobacco...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will add more drugs to its bulk-buy program in an effort to curb high medicine prices, the country’s cabinet said, in a move that could increase downwards price pressure on multinational...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dozens of hospitals throughout the Netherlands closed for anything but the most urgent cases on Wednesday, as nurses and doctors went on strike demanding higher pay and better working conditions....

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Omega-3 fish oil supplements can improve attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) just as much as drug treatments, but only in those whose blood levels...

By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters Health) – Punishing hours and concerns about having little time to marry and have children deter both male and female medical students from choosing careers in surgery, but more women say...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Patients having knee replacement surgery sometimes hope to regain or improve their sexual activity afterward, but that doesn’t always happen, a new study finds. A year after...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The vast majority of U.S. states have passed laws blocking civil lawsuits that might result from a doctor refusing to perform an abortion or certain other medical procedures because of...

By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters Health) – Roughly half of UK adolescents have seen a parent who’s not an alcoholic get drunk or tipsy, and more than one in three can name at least one downside to parents’...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – States that expand public health benefits to cover low-income legal immigrants don’t appear to experience a surge in immigrants moving to get medical coverage, a U.S. study...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – With several small studies suggesting that the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, might be linked to memory loss in seniors, patients were understandably concerned....

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – The inflammation-fighting drug colchicine, already a treatment for gout, dramatically reduces the odds of future cardiovascular problems in people who have just survived a heart attack, a...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German biotech company Morphosys said more patients would be recruited for a study testing its most advanced drug against a common type of blood cancer, following an encouraging interim data readout....