By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The earlier a child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the greater the risk of heart disease and a life shortened by as much as 18 years, a large study suggests. Experts had assumed...
Read MoreBEIJING (Reuters) – China found its second case of African swine fever (ASF) on Thursday at a slaughterhouse owned by WH Group Ltd’s Chinese unit, stirring concerns about the spread of the deadly infection across the...
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Pfizer has agreed to pay German biotech firm BioNTech up to $425...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Current smokers are more likely than ex-smokers or...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with diabetes are more likely to develop certain...
Read MoreBy Nandita Bose and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Best Buy Co Inc said on Wednesday it would buy health services provider GreatCall Inc for $800 million in cash, its largest acquisition ever, as it focuses on selling products...
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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Weight gain can be a big concern for smokers who want to...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients who use alternative, non-medical therapies may be more likely to forgo recommended medical treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, and be more likely to die as a...
Read More(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators have expanded the use of one of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc’s cystic fibrosis drugs to include patients aged between 12 months and 24 months. The expanded approval makes Kalydeco the...
Read MoreBy Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Adults who sleep too little or too much may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, say researchers who argue that the best way to think of the harmful effect is in terms of...
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By Caroline Humer and Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Express Scripts Holding Co <ESRX.O>...
Read MoreBy Nomvelo Chalumbira JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A bill that would toughen anti-smoking legislation in South Africa has been submitted to parliament for review by lawmakers, a health ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, as...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – If restaurants and other food establishments stocked epinephrine autoinjectors, the number of fatal allergic reactions, known as anaphylaxis, could decrease, a small study in Canada...
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – A long-acting injection developed by GlaxoSmithKline and...
Read MoreSHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese drug company produced nearly 500,000 substandard vaccines for babies, roughly double an earlier estimate by authorities investigating a safety scandal, state news agency Xinhua reported on...
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By Caroline Humer and Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Express Scripts Holding Co <ESRX.O>...
Read MoreBEIJING (Reuters) – Northeast China’s Liaoning province has now culled 8,116 hogs in response to an outbreak of African swine fever earlier this month, the provincial animal husbandry bureau told Reuters on...
Read MoreBy Fiston Mahamba and Stephanie Nebehay GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo/GENEVA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo has started using the experimental mAb114 Ebola treatment to counter the latest flare-up of the...
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By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Advocacy groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit...
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By Tina Bellon NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayer AG <BAYGn.DE> unit Monsanto faces long odds...
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