By Peter Szekely (Reuters) – Fire investigators are examining whether the battery in an electronic cigarette triggered a small explosion that killed a man in Florida this month, sending fragments of the vape device into...
Read MoreJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from the world’s largest ever outbreak of the food-borne disease listeria has risen to 204, but the number of new cases has declined sharply after products were recalled, South...
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Beer cannot be marketed as beneficial, a German top court ruled on...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – World Health Organization and other United Nations staff...
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By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Merck KGaA said two of its...
Read MoreBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – An experimental Loxo Oncology Inc drug that targets cancers with mistakes in the RET gene led to tumor shrinkage in nearly 70 percent of patients regardless of where their cancer...
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GENEVA/KINSHASA (Reuters) – The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat...
Read MoreKINSHASA (Reuters) – Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga late on Wednesday said in a statement that the country’s Ebola outbreak had entered “a new phase” after a case of the virus was detected in...
Read MoreBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Testing advanced lung cancer patients for all of the possible genetic mutations that could be driving their cancer at once is more cost effective than testing for one or a limited...
Read More(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday the harvest season for romaine lettuce, linked to the multi-state E. coli outbreak, was over and it was unlikely that it was still available in stores due...
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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Roche’s immunotherapy Tecentriq, given with its older...
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Allergan Inc was sued on Wednesday by four large...
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(Reuters) – The combination of Merck & Co’s immunotherapy Keytruda and...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with schizophrenia who are treated early in their...
Read MoreBy Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – The increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States appears to have yielded a rise in organs available for transplant, and they are just as viable as those coming from people who have...
Read More(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm607884.htm the first non-opioid drug that will help reduce symptoms of opioid withdrawal...
Read MoreBy Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Treating early stage breast cancer patients for just six months with Roche’s Herceptin works as well as the current 12-month regimen, researchers who conducted a large clinical trial said...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – When soldiers have their first deployment within their first year of service, they may be twice as likely to attempt suicide during or after their second deployment, a U.S. study...
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(Reuters) – Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed a law on Wednesday that will allow the import...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adolescents who are naturally inclined to stay up late at night are more likely to suffer from insomnia as well as behavioral and emotional problems than their peers who prefer an...
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