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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – More retailers may be selling cigarettes to minors than government estimates have suggested, a new study finds. Researchers determined that more than half of retail stores may be...

By Tom Daly and Muyu Xu BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday 88 hogs had died from African swine fever in the eastern city of Lianyungang, the third outbreak this month, as the...

(This version of the August 16th story corrects to change drug price in headline, first bullet, paragraphs 1 and 3 after company corrects it to $16,970 from $15,970) By Manas Mishra (Reuters) – Japan’s Eisai Co Ltd...

BEIJING (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...

By 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...

By 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...

BEIJING (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...

By 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...