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(Reuters) – Eton Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve its treatment for conjunctivitis, sending its shares tumbling nearly 20 percent in extended trading. No...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who like to wake up early every day may be less likely to develop breast cancer than women who prefer to sleep in, a recent study suggests. While previous studies have linked...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Opioid users who get treatment for their drug dependency are less likely to have police encounters or to be charged with crimes, an Australian study suggests. Treatment – which can...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Minor surgery to help newborns latch on and nurse may have become too common, a new study suggests. More than 60% of babies referred to a specialty center for tongue-tie surgery, or...

PARIS (Reuters) – An investigation into why a dozen or so babies born without hands or arms in a handful of rural areas of France since 2000 has so far been unable to determine causes, an interim report published by the...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Rwandan women have better access to obstetrics and gynecology services thanks to an international partnership to train more doctors, a new study finds. The yearly number of medical...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Congo will not permit the use of further experimental vaccines as it combats an Ebola outbreak because doing so risked “confusing the population,” the government...

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatian drug wholesalers have decided to limit deliveries of medicines to some hospitals in a row over mounting debts and urged the government to pay immediately at least half of them now totaling 2.6...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Syphilis cases have soared in Europe over the last decade and become, for the first time since the early 2000s, more common in some countries than new cases of HIV, health experts said on...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Nearly one in eight sexually active teen girls are pressured by their partners to have unprotected sex and try to conceive when they don’t want a baby, a U.S. study suggests....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Physicians who trained in U.S. hospitals under recent reforms that capped their work hours appear to provide care that’s similar in cost and quality to doctors who trained before...