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JAKARTA (Reuters) – More than 4,000 pigs have died after an outbreak of swine fever in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, the head of the area’s food security and livestock agency said on Wednesday. Carcasses...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Policies that restrict flavored tobacco access can reduce teen use in as little as six months, a study in Massachusetts suggests. Researchers compared two towns 30 miles apart and found...

By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters Health) – Living with moderate or high stress levels year after year may increase the risk of high blood pressure, suggests U.S. research focused on African Americans. Among more than 1,800...

By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters Health) – The burdens of managing a chronic disease like diabetes may lead women to skip recommended cancer screenings, researchers say. An analysis of data from studies over two decades finds...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The number of child psychiatrists in the U.S. has climbed in recent years, but a new study suggests gains have been uneven and access to psychiatric care may be getting worse for kids in...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry on Tuesday said it will reduce the number of small-scale slaughterhouses to better prevent and control African swine fever. There are too many small slaughterhouses in...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The rate at which children are being admitted to U.S. emergency departments for sexual abuse almost doubled between 2010 and 2016, a new study finds. Nationwide emergency department data...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Even as women make up larger proportions of college athletes and medical school graduates in the U.S., a new study suggests the vast majority of head team physicians at the college level...

By Lisa Rapaport Teens who visit the emergency room for self-harm injuries have a higher risk of repeat ER visits for self-harm and suicide attempts and a higher mortality risk than their peers, a Canadian study suggests. For...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Being born with two copies of a rare genetic mutation may have staved off Alzheimer’s disease for three decades in a woman at risk for an inherited early-onset form of the...