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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – A virtual reality program may work at least as well as one-on-one therapy to help people overcome a fear of heights, a UK study suggests. Over four weeks of sessions, scores measuring...

GENEVA (Reuters) – Honduras has appealed against a WTO ruling won last month by Australia on its “plain” packaging requirements for tobacco, a WTO spokesman said on Friday. In a landmark ruling, the WTO panel...

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A plastic surgeon known as “Dr. Bumbum” or “Dr. Butt” on social media because of his buttock-enhancement operations was arrested on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, four days after...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Police killings of unarmed black people are associated with worse mental health for African-Americans across the country, even when they have no direct connection to the deaths, a U.S....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Drinking alcohol and smoking pot at the same time is more likely to increase the odds of unsafe sex for young women than for men, a small U.S. study suggests. “This is important...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Gender disparities in medical careers – in position, pay and publishing – start early, but even small systemic changes in training programs could begin to narrow these gaps,...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Parents who had a lot of traumatic or stressful experiences during childhood may be more likely to have kids with behavioral problems, a U.S. study suggests. Adverse childhood...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – High school students in the U.S. are a lot more sober than they used to be, a new study suggests. The proportion of high school students in their final year who have never tried alcohol...

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria reported on Thursday another case of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) close to the border with Turkey. The virus, which can infect up to 90 percent of an animal heard but...

BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese bulk manufacturer of the common blood and heart drug valsartan said it was recalling the product from consumers in the United States and would halt supplies to the country, after an impurity...