Author: Reuters

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Many people may mistakenly assume teen boys are not prone to eating disorders because their symptoms are different from what’s typically seen in girls and their focus is on...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who eat lots of ultra-processed foods are more likely to develop heart disease and to die sooner than those who stick with foods in their original form, two large studies...

By Lisa Rapaport Many American children are still being poisoned by laundry pods, according to a new study that suggests voluntary safety standards many not do enough to prevent kids from eating them. Poison control centers...

By Ankur Banerjee Spending time in the sun without protection increases the risk of melanoma, but the potentially deadly skin cancer can occur even on sites with minimal sun exposure, doctors warn. Melanoma accounts for only...

By Linda Carroll Even as a shortage of U.S. workers who care for the elderly and disabled grows, proposed limits on immigration may worsen the situation, researchers say. As of 2017, immigrants accounted for more than 18% of...

KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s highest civil court on Tuesday rejected French drugmaker Sanofi’s bid to fend off a legal challenge by U.S. rival Amgen against Sanofi’s cholesterol drug Praluent....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Death rates from falls are rising among elderly Americans – and climbing fastest among seniors in their 90s, a U.S. study suggests. Among all adults 75 and older, mortality from...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German drugmaker Bayer has signed an alliance with Arvinas Inc to gain access to the U.S. biotech firm’s experimental protein drugs and crop protection technology in a deal worth up to $750...

KINSHASA (Reuters) – The number of cases of Ebola in eastern Congo has passed 2,000, government figures showed late on Monday, as the rate of new cases tripled and containment efforts faltered in the remote, unstable...

By Lisa Rapaport Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates, a new study suggests. In 2018,...