Author: Reuters

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – A smartphone app may not be an effective method of measuring blood pressure in pregnant women, a small experiment suggests. Researchers tested an experimental smartphone app that uses...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adding a test normally used for diabetes monitoring to employee wellness exams could identify people who don’t have the disease but are at high risk of developing it, a recent...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Providing free electronic cigarettes or other stop-smoking products to employees to get them to give up real cigarettes is less effective than the threat of taking away a cash reward for...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Very few Medicare patients on dialysis receive hospice care at the end of life, and when they do, they’re often enrolled too briefly to fully benefit from these services, a U.S....

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) – Merck & Co said on Wednesday its drug Keytruda helped patients with a certain type of lung cancer live longer and prevented the disease from spreading, helping to solidify its position in...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who eat an egg just about every day may have a lower risk of heart attack and stroke than individuals who don’t eat eggs at all, a large Chinese study suggests. Researchers...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adding chiropractic care to standard medical care for low back pain may help reduce discomfort and disability, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers studied 750 active-duty U.S. military...

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) – Nabriva Therapeutics Plc’s antibiotic drug to treat a common form of pneumonia met the main goal of a key clinical trial, but concerns over its side effects sent the drug developer’s...