Roche cancer treatment priced at $17,050 a month, lower than rival Vitrakvi
(Reuters) – Roche Holding AG has priced its personalized cancer treatment, Rozlytrek, at...
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(Reuters) – Roche Holding AG has priced its personalized cancer treatment, Rozlytrek, at...
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By Tamara Mathias Court-ordered anti-smoking ads sponsored by the tobacco industry reached only around 40% of adults and about half of all smokers in the U.S., a recent study suggests. Past research has shown that anti-smoking...
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By Manas Mishra Hospital workers often come to work with contagious respiratory illnesses, against the recommendations of public health regulators, a Canadian study suggests. Nearly all of the 2,093 health care workers in the...
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By Aakash B (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Celgene Corp’s Inrebic to treat certain rare forms of bone marrow cancer called myelofibrosis, making it the second approved drug to...
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(Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc is recalling nearly 40,000 pounds of its Weaver chicken patties...
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(Reuters) – Heart valve systems from Edwards Lifesciences Corp and Medtronic Plc have been approved for use in a condition that restricts blood flow from the heart in patients at low-risk of death linked to open-heart...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Nordic walking, an aerobic activity performed with walking poles similar to ski poles, may benefit patients with breast cancer, according to a review of existing research. The low-impact...
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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) – A woman and her child were the first two cases confirmed with Ebola...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s pig herd shrank by 32.2% in July from the same month a...
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By Manas Mishra (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed that...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Less than 10% of U.S. stroke patients get a treatment that evidence shows is most effective for a certain type of stroke – and the odds are even lower for patients who are black and...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Surgeons are no better at determining which patients might benefit from operations to treat torn knee cartilage than if they just flipped a coin, a new study suggests. Researchers...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roche Holding AG’s...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Targeting the flammability of smoking materials like cigarettes, pipes and cigars, rather than fireproofing all furniture with hazardous chemicals, may be a more effective way of...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Surgical residents say it’s tough to have children during their five years of intensive training due to a lack of flexibility in program requirements and lack of support from peers...
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic research that reconstructed the past...
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will ban the import of pigs from Myanmar for 90 days, the...
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s supreme court ordered the health ministry on...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The only liver disease becoming more widespread in the U.S. is one driven by obesity and diabetes, even as other types of liver disorders linked to drinking or hepatitis are becoming...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The more exposure people have to air pollution, especially ozone, the more lung damage they develop over time, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers already knew that heavy air pollution...
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