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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who have traumatic brain injuries may be nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as individuals who don’t have a history of injuries like concussions and skull fractures, a...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – When people take daily pills to minimize their chances of getting HIV, they are also more likely to get routine care like flu shots and recommended screenings for common health problems,...

By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock (Reuters Health) – After sex, men can sometimes experience a myriad of confusing negative feelings, a phenomenon called post-coital dysphoria (PCD), which can interfere with relationships,...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 – gene mutations that raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancers – are not always done in U.S. women who are eligible to get them, a new study...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Agriculture reported on Tuesday an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in its central province of Henan The O-type strain of the disease was found in five pigs at a slaughter...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – For decades, doctors have told parents to talk to kids as often as possible to help build speech and language skills. Now, a new study suggests that how parents talk to children may...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Four new cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said, as authorities prepare to deploy an experimental...

MUMBAI (Reuters) – A unit of India’s Hetero Drugs is recalling some batches of the blood pressure and heart medicine valsartan in the United States, a notice on the U.S. regulator’s website said, amid a wider probe...

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc’s drug for a rare hereditary disease won U.S. regulatory approval on Friday, becoming the first approved treatment from a new class of medicines that use gene...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – In a working environment where managers feel comfortable offering help and support rather than avoiding employees with depression, absenteeism is lower and presenteeism is higher,...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday that a second Chinese contract manufacturer, Zhejiang Tianyu, had produced a common blood pressure and heart drug with an impurity that could cause...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Most university students may plan to have children in the future, but they also probably overestimate how much time they have before their fertility starts to wane, an Australian study...