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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Women who include a lot of fiber in their diets may have a lower risk for problems with bowel control as they age, a study suggests. The inability to control bowel movements, or bowel...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – – Women who get abortions at clinics or doctors’ offices may be no more likely to experience serious complications than patients who have these procedures at surgery centers,...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women 65 and older should keep getting screened for osteoporosis, or porous, fragile bones that are prone to fractures, U.S. doctors recommend. Some younger women who have an increased...

(Reuters) – Puma Biotechnology Inc said on Tuesday a committee of the European Medicines Agency was likely to give positive opinion on its breast cancer drug, five months after the regulator recommended against approving...

LONDON (Reuters) – A venture capital fund dedicated to finding new ways to prevent and treat dementia has raised $350 million, far exceeding the initial target of $200 million set on its launch in 2015. The global Dementia...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – U.S. flight attendants may be more likely than other Americans to develop several types of cancer including tumors of the breast, uterus, cervix, thyroid and skin, new research suggests....

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – The use of onsite automated external defibrillators (AED), increasingly found in places like airports and sports stadiums, is raising the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest, suggests...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Last month U.S. regulators said a pill that helps prevent infection with HIV is safe for use by adolescents, and a study suggests most physicians would be willing to prescribe this...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adult survivors of childhood cancer are at risk for serious chronic medical problems, but many of them are not particularly concerned about their future health, a study suggests. In a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian meat producer Cherkizovo said on Thursday bird flu was detected at its poultry farm in Penza region. “The hotbed of the outbreak was contained and destroyed”, the firm said, adding no...

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria on Thursday reported the first outbreak in the European Union of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), on livestock farms in the village of Voden in southeastern Bulgaria, close...