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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – There are many reasons women dislike mammograms, chief among them the awkward and often painful process of having their breasts squashed by a technician into a machine that flattens them...

By Ankur Banerjee (Reuters Health) – The U.S. government’s response in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 fell short of federal responses to other major storms that year, researchers say. The U.S. deployed...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Compounded pain creams are no better for chronic pain than topical treatments that contain no medicine at all, a U.S. study suggests. Compounded medicines are custom-blended by...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Drivers who don’t wear seatbelts are more likely to skip seatbelts and car seats for their kids, an analysis of U.S. crash data suggests. When the driver in a crash wasn’t...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients are more successful at giving up cigarettes for good if they take smoking-cessation medicine for 24 weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks, a small clinical trial suggests....

PARIS (Reuters) – Poland has reported a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) among cattle on a farm near the Czech border, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. The...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Mirroring the decades-long increase in obesity rates in the U.S., cancers that are thought to be driven at least in part by excess weight are also on the rise among people under age 50,...