U.S. lawmaker launches investigation into pharma drug pricing
By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. lawmaker launched an investigation...
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By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. lawmaker launched an investigation...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Three in four parents are unaware when their teens have recurrent thoughts about suicide, and a big part of the problem may be that adolescents often deny feeling this way, a U.S. study...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Invasive follow-up tests to examine abnormalities found with lung cancer screening may lead to more complications and extra healthcare costs than doctors previously thought, a U.S. study...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – A proposed shift in Medicare coverage for medicines administered by doctors may help reduce total drug spending, but a new study suggests it may also lead to higher out-of-pocket costs...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The U.S. government’s toll-free substance abuse helpline, which provides free referral services to those looking for treatment, gets little publicity, a new study finds. By...
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will cull all wild boar in a zone along the Belgian border to try...
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By By, Kate, Kelland,, Health and and LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Global health teams...
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By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – A judge in California on Sunday partially blocked a set of Trump administration rules that allow employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers women’s birth control from...
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Police in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu have begun an investigation after at least 145 children received expired polio vaccines, the Global Times said on Monday, a new blow to a sector hit...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry on Sunday said a new outbreak of African swine fever had been confirmed in Gansu province in the northwest of the country. The outbreak occurred on a farm with 109...
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s health ministry has sought to reassure HIV patients that sufficient antiretroviral (ARV) drugs will be available for their treatment after some hospitals had run out of supplies. At...
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(Reuters) – A U.S. healthcare worker who was being monitored for the Ebola virus after treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo was released from a Nebraska hospital on Saturday after doctors said they had...
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A new outbreak of African swine fever has hit two farms in Jiangsu province in eastern China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, as the highly contagious disease continues to spread...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – At least $14 billion is needed to accelerate the...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Diabetic patients who take statins to treat high cholesterol may get an added benefit: a lower risk of damage to the retina, a new study suggests. Researchers found that diabetic...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – More than half of heart failure patients who visit the emergency room don’t receive prompt follow-up care, and a Canadian study suggests the delay is associated with more...
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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co remains in the hunt for cancer drugs even...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Access to pain relief during childbirth in the U.S. may vary depending on where women live, a study suggests. Researchers who analyzed more than 2.6 million deliveries in 2015 found the...
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(Reuters) – An estimated 69,000 to 84,000 Americans were hospitalized due to the flu in the...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – As mass-casualty events and violent attacks in the U.S. continue to increase, military and emergency medicine experts are recommending that public venues install bleeding-control kits...
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