- Physician's Weekly

Opioid plaintiffs fight bid to disqualify U.S. judge before trial

Sep 16, 2019

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Lawyers for cities and counties suing drug companies over the...

Mint, menthol e-cigarette liquids high in cancer-causing compound: study

Sep 16, 2019

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – A cancer-causing compound banned by U.S. regulators last...

Indonesia finance minister defends plan to raise cigarette prices

Sep 16, 2019

By Maikel Jefriando JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s finance minister defended on...

Three dead, hundreds ill in Spain listeria outbreak: WHO

Sep 16, 2019

LONDON (Reuters) – Three people have died and at least 222 have been infected in Spain’s largest ever outbreak of listeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The outbreak, linked to a packaged pork...

Tanzania’s Zanzibar begins to register traditional healers

Sep 16, 2019

By Nicky Woo ZANZIBAR CITY, Tanzania (Reuters) – Zanzibar’s traditional healers with...

New York to ban flavored e-cigarettes after illnesses, deaths

Sep 15, 2019

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced a ban on all...

Japan culls 753 hogs to contain swine fever outbreak

Sep 14, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese officials have culled 753 pigs in Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo after detecting an outbreak of swine fever, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday. The cull, which took place on Saturday, was...

Five confirmed cholera deaths in Sudan since August 28

Sep 14, 2019

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – There have been five confirmed deaths from cholera in Sudan’s Blue Nile state since Aug. 28, the health ministry said in a statement. The ministry reported 67 cases of cholera since that date,...

Explainer: One possible culprit in vaping lung illnesses – ‘Dank Vapes’

Sep 13, 2019

By Chris Kirkham and Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – As U.S health officials scramble to identify...

Virtual reality helps kids getting X-rays

Sep 13, 2019

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – A virtual reality program with cartoon characters may reduce children’s fear before imaging procedures, a South Korean study suggests. Compared to verbal instructions, a virtual...

First peanut allergy therapy gets backing from U.S. regulators’ expert advisers

Sep 13, 2019

By Tamara Mathias and Saumya Joseph (Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday recommended approving the first therapy for peanut allergies, which affect over 1.6 million children in the...

U.S and European regulators reviewing safety of heartburn drugs like Zantac

Sep 13, 2019

By Michael Erman (Reuters) – U.S. and European drug regulators said on Friday they are...

PTSD linked to increased risk of ovarian cancer

Sep 13, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who exhibit many classic symptoms of...

Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions

Sep 13, 2019

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice examined using...

WHO investigating death in Tanzania due to unknown illness

Sep 13, 2019

By Omar Mohammed NAIROBI (Reuters) – A woman whose death in Tanzania is being investigated by the World Health Organization probably did not have Ebola, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Biogen scraps two late-stage trials for Alzheimer’s treatment

Sep 13, 2019

By Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) – Biogen Inc and Eisai Co Ltd are abandoning two late-stage trials for their Alzheimer’s treatment in a widely anticipated move that comes months after the companies scrapped trials of...

E-scooter injuries rising, often involve drugs or alcohol

Sep 13, 2019

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – As the popularity of electric scooters increases, so do injuries sending users to the hospital, a U.S. study suggests. Those injured riders are most often young men, without helmets,...