GSK pharma head flags need for speed in high-pressure drug market
By Ludwig Burger LONDON (Reuters) – Doing things one at a time in drug development is not a...
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Brain fever kills 97 children in east India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nearly 100 children have died this month from encephalitis, commonly...
Read MoreeSwatini bans imports of live pigs from countries affected by African swine fever
MBABANE (Reuters) – The Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland, banned imports of live pigs on Monday from countries that test positive for African Swine Fever (ASF) after an outbreak of the disease in...
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Ebola’s spread shows how science needs societies to succeed
By Kate Kelland LONDON – The persistence of Congo’s Ebola outbreak and its deadly...
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WHO likely to declare Ebola an international emergency: experts
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is...
Read MoreWHO panel decides not to declare international Ebola emergency
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an international emergency over Congo’s Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Uganda this week, concluding...
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U.S. drugmakers file lawsuit against requiring drug prices in TV ads
(Reuters) – U.S. drugmakers filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a new government...
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Brazil asks for WTO investigation of Indonesia on poultry trade
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian government has formally asked the World Trade...
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Roche’s combo lymphoma treatment wins U.S. FDA approval
(This June 10 story deletes paragraph 9 to clarify that retreatment with Polivy has not been...
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Health Canada to allow some edible cannabis products starting mid-December
(Reuters) – Health Canada said on Friday that some edible cannabis products, extracts and...
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U.S. cities propose framework for nationwide opioid settlement talks
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Lawyers for counties and municipalities suing drug manufacturers...
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Bluebird prices gene therapy at 1.58 million euros over 5 years
By Deena Beasley and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Bluebird bio Inc on Friday set a price for...
Read MoreListening to music may ease cancer patients’ pain
By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Listening to music at home may reduce cancer patients’ pain and fatigue and ease symptoms like loss of appetite and difficulty concentrating, according to research in Taiwan. In...
Read MoreExperimental mobile app helps manage migraines
By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – A smartphone-based relaxation app could help migraine sufferers reduce the number of headaches they get each month, a small study suggests. Using the app twice a week was associated with...
Read MoreDeath toll from UK hospital listeria outbreak rises to five
LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people to die from a listeria outbreak in British hospitals has risen to five from three, Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday. The agency said that since the outbreak it had reviewed...
Read MorePharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders
By Saumya Joseph (Reuters Health) – More than three years after Pennsylvania issued a statewide order expanding access to the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone, the product was still hard to purchase in Philadelphia...
Read MoreEnanta’s lung infection therapy succeeds in mid-stage trial
By Saumya Joseph (Reuters) – Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday its treatment for a highly contagious respiratory infection met the main goal of reducing virus levels in the body in a mid-stage study. The therapy,...
Read MoreGot an antibiotic prescription from your dentist? Chances are, it might be unnecessary
By Saumya Joseph (Reuters Health) – More than three-quarters of antibiotic prescriptions written by dentists before dental procedures are unnecessary and might do more harm than good, a new U.S. study found. Dentists write...
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Family sent back to DR Congo after two die of Ebola in Uganda
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Authorities repatriated the relatives of two people...
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Indonesia cracks down on online tobacco ads to deter young smokers
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia, the world’s fourth biggest producer of cigarettes, will...
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