LONDON (Reuters) – Merck & Co’s key cancer drug Keytruda has been approved for use in Europe in combination with chemotherapy in previously untreated lung cancer patients, marking a further advance for the...
Read More(Reuters) – Britain’s Consort Medical Plc said on Monday it had agreed to develop a nasal spray for treating opioid overdoses with specialty pharmaceutical company Opiant Pharmaceuticals Inc. California-based Opiant...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Roche faces a fresh row over drug pricing in Britain, following a...
Read MoreHARARE (Reuters) – A cholera outbreak has killed 10 people in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after they drank contaminated water, a city health official said on Sunday. Harare city council has struggled to supply water to...
Read MoreTOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s agriculture ministry said on Sunday it had confirmed the country’s first outbreak of swine fever in 26 years and suspended exports of pork and wild boar meat. The fever, a different...
Read MoreSEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean man, 61, was diagnosed with the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and is being treated at a hospital in Seoul, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two major health scares at U.S. airports involving...
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LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline said on Friday that U.S. health authorities had asked for...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – An injury prevention program tailored to...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – More than one in nine people worldwide who might benefit...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Patients with peripheral artery disease who drink beet...
Read MoreBy Ankur Banerjee (Reuters Health) – Teenagers who smoke or who binge on alcohol have signs of artery damage by age 17, a recent study shows. Researchers found that 17-year-olds who had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in...
Read MoreBEIJING (Reuters) – China’s drug safety body has found no problems in its inspection of 45 vaccine makers and will step up supervision of vaccine quality, it said on Friday, following a scandal that put children at...
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By Aditya Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it would work with...
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By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) – The African swine fever spreading rapidly in China...
Read MoreBy Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Canada’s TELUS Health is joining forces with London-based AI company Babylon to bring virtual medical services, including video consultations, to Canadians who do not have a family...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who have recently experienced a stroke may be...
Read More(Reuters) – Akcea Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday it planned to cut its workforce by about 10 percent after the U.S. health regulator declined to approve its Waylivra drug for treating a genetic disease that causes fat...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Most U.S. four-year colleges and universities as well as community colleges don’t have tobacco-free or smoke-free policies on campus, a new study finds. About 35 percent have...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who have weight-loss surgery for extreme obesity...
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