Month: July 2018

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Opioid addicts with criminal histories may be less likely to die of overdoses or other causes during periods when they’re in methadone treatment programs, a Canadian study...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Obese kids may be able to drop weight with the help of an unlikely aid: video games. Special exercise video games helped overweight children drop pounds – and improve their...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Female soccer players may be more likely to experience brain damage from heading the ball than male athletes, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined brain scans of 49 male and 49...

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Japan-based Shionogi & Co Ltd’s treatment for low blood-platelet count or thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic liver disease. The...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Black and Latino men are twice as likely as white men to die during interactions with police, according to a new study. Police-involved fatalities in the U.S. average nearly three deaths...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Measles outbreaks can be very costly to communities, a new report suggests. For example, the 2013 measles outbreak in New York City cost the city’s health department nearly...

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria has recalled 2.4 million bottles of cough syrup containing codeine after national outrage earlier this year over endemic use of opioids. Nigeria imposed a ban on the production and import of...

(Reuters) – Indivior Plc notched a legal victory on Tuesday after a U.S. court reaffirmed that a generic rival could not re-launch cheaper versions of the British drugmaker’s best-selling opioid addiction treatment...