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Congo to begin Ebola vaccinations on Monday

May 20, 2018

By Benoit Nyemba MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Health workers in...

Congo’s Ebola not an international emergency, can be controlled -WHO

May 18, 2018

By Tom Miles and Fiston Mahamba GENEVA/KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in Democratic...

Trump proposes taking funds away from abortion providers

May 18, 2018

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday issued a...

Regulators flag possible birth defect link to GSK’s HIV drug

May 18, 2018

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. and European regulators said they were assessing...

Big Ag turns to peas to meet soaring global protein demand

May 18, 2018

By Rod Nickel and P.J. Huffstutter (Reuters) – Cargill, the global grains trader, sees the...

Agile Therapeutics sinks after FDA feedback on contraceptive

May 18, 2018

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Agile Therapeutics Inc’s shares sank 75 percent on...

Reporting outcomes of procedure to unblock arteries may not improve care

May 18, 2018

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Public reporting of outcomes for a common procedure to clear blocked arteries was supposed to improve quality, but some doctors say it hasn’t delivered on the goal of enhancing...

Mental health support lacking in U.S. diabetes care

May 18, 2018

By Mary Gillis (Reuters Health) – Most of the top diabetes treatment centers in the U.S. provide experts in hormonal disease, diet and nutrition and diabetes education as part of normal care, but mental health support is...

U.S. FDA approves Amgen drug for prevention of migraines

May 17, 2018

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Amgen Inc won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on Thursday for the first drug in a new class designed to prevent migraine headaches in adults. The drug, Aimovig, which is given...

FDA names drugmakers potentially acting to delay cheap generics

May 17, 2018

By Michael Erman (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday listed a...

Congo and WHO race to prevent runaway Ebola outbreak

May 17, 2018

By Patient Ligodi and Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese and U.N. officials were...

Merck KGaA’s lung cancer drugs show promise in early-stage trials

May 17, 2018

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Merck KGaA said two of its...

Loxo Oncology’s targeted RET drug shows promise in early trial

May 17, 2018

By 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...

Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak

May 17, 2018

GENEVA/KINSHASA (Reuters) – The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat...

Testing for all lung cancer mutations at once found cost effective – study

May 16, 2018

By 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...

FDA reports inaccuracy in IQVIA opioid sales data

May 16, 2018

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said on Wednesday it found inaccuracies in sales data of opioid drug products provided by IQVIA Holdings Inc, a vendor it contracts. The regulator said IQVIA...