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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Jilin provincial government has removed the head of its food and drug safety body as well as the agency’s two deputy heads, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday,...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Lianyungang city said local authorities have culled 14,577 hogs due to African swine fever as of Aug. 20, after the nation’s third outbreak of the disease was confirmed there last...

(Reuters) – Allergan Plc said on Tuesday U.S. health regulators had declined to approve Esmya, its treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding in women with uterine fibroids, requesting more information and citing safety...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Brand-name medicines that combine multiple drugs into a single pill may be more expensive than buying each drug separately, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data collected...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Two popular monitors that promise to keep parents informed about their babies’ vital signs scored poorly in a test comparing them with actual hospital quality monitors, researchers...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Not all women need Pap tests to look for cells in the cervix that might be malignant. Under new guidelines from U.S. physicians, some women can get a test that looks for the...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Many pediatricians and family physicians don’t discuss the meningococcal B vaccine with teens even though these conversations are recommended to determine whether adolescents...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Parents who’ve said “no” to teen tattoos need not feel alone. A new U.S. survey finds that 78 percent of parents wouldn’t even consider allowing their teenager to...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Healthy adults who don’t keep their LDL-C, or “bad cholesterol,” in check are more likely to die prematurely from cardiovascular disease than peers with lower...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Black and Hispanic children may be less likely than white kids to survive certain childhood cancers at least in part due to differences in socioeconomic status, a U.S. study suggests....

LONDON (Reuters) – Heart drugs containing an active ingredient from a second Chinese company are being recalled from the European market after detection of a toxic impurity that may cause cancer. The European Medicines...