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By Josephine Mason and Hallie Gu BEIJING (Reuters) – China is culling over 1,300 pigs as authorities rush to control a fourth outbreak of African swine fever and try to trace the origins of the virus that first struck the...

(Reuters) – New York State health officials said on Thursday they were investigating reports of multiple illnesses potentially associated with a McDonald’s Corp restaurant in Jamestown, NY. The state health...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Among men getting a prostate biopsy, those with a history of consuming seven or more drinks a week are more likely than nondrinkers to be diagnosed with an aggressive tumor, a small...

(Adds dropped word to headline, removes extraneous sentence in graf 3, in this Aug. 21 story) By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock (Reuters Health) – Millions of subtle variations in genes contribute to individual risk for common...

By Josephine Mason and Hallie Gu BEIJING (Reuters) – China, home to the world’s largest pig herd, reported its fourth outbreak of the deadly African swine fever on Thursday, with more than 400 pigs infected as the...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a permanent injunction blocking Alabama from banning the most common method of second-trimester abortion. But two judges from the 11th U.S....

(This version of the story corrects spelling of Weiner in paragraphs 10, 12 and 13) By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The vapor from e-cigarettes may boost the production of inflammatory chemicals in the lungs, while...

By Tamara Mathias and Saumya Joseph (Reuters) – Exact Sciences Corp’s shares shot up as much as 26 percent on Wednesday after the company said Pfizer Inc would share marketing expenses and co-promote the...