Trump administration to announce changes to anti-kickback rules for healthcare providers
By Carl O’Donnell (Reuters) – The Trump administration will announce plans to change...
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By Carl O’Donnell (Reuters) – The Trump administration will announce plans to change...
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By Carl O’Donnell and Tom Hals (Reuters) – A jury award that hit Johnson & Johnson...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Although diet plays an outsize role in health and wellness and can be crucial to managing many common chronic conditions, medical schools tend not to devote much time to teaching future...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Few federal dollars are available for research into ways to prevent firearm injuries even though they are the second-leading cause of death among U.S. children and teens and the leading...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Rates of stroke among U.S. adults over age 65 have steadily decreased over the past 30 years, according to a study that tracked participants from the 1980s through December 2017. Rates...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who increase their consumption of sodas, juices and other sweet drinks over time are more likely than those who don’t to develop diabetes, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers...
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By Justin George Varghese (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline <GSK.L> on Tuesday said it is...
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By Josh Horwitz (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said on Wednesday it will stop...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Australian drugmaker Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Ltd’s treatment for a rare inherited disorder that causes skin damage from exposure to light, sending its...
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By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson must pay $8...
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) – The U.S. state of Arizona withdrew its support for a proposed...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Fathers who drink alcohol in the months just before their child is conceived are more likely to have a baby with heart defects than those who abstain prior to conception, a recent study...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – About a quarter of the dollars spent on healthcare in the U.S. may be wasted, a new analysis suggests. Six types of waste in healthcare could be costing as much as $935 billion annually,...
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Medical tests on a patient in southern Sweden for possible Ebola have detected no sign of the deadly virus, hospital authorities said on Tuesday. The patient, who was not identified, arrived at the...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Diabetes can make people more prone to heat stroke when they exercise on hot days, but two studies suggest there are things diabetics and others can do to lower their risk of...
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By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – Dog owners live longer, and canine companionship may be especially good for people with heart disease and those living alone, new research shows. “We studied more than 3 million...
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(Reuters) – The number of Americans who were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) last year rose to a record high, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday, partly because funding for local health departments...
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By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) – AbbVie Inc’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira...
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By John Miller and John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis’s anti-blindness medicine...
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(Reuters) – Massachusetts state health officials on Monday confirmed one death from a...
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