By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Injuries from cosmetics, shampoo and other personal care products send one young child to a U.S. emergency room every two hours, according to a new study that suggests many parents may...
Read MorePARIS (Reuters) – Laos has reported its first cases of African swine fever (ASF), confirming outbreaks in the southern province of Saravane, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. The...
Read More(This June 11 story corrects to show 65,000 cases were last year, while this year has seen 87,000 cases, paragraph 2) DAKAR (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has declared an epidemic of measles,...
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will not legalize the recreational use of cannabis but could...
Read MoreBy Saumya Joseph (Reuters Health) – Flashing light effects that have become the norm for electronic dance music concerts could bring on epileptic seizures in young people who may not know they have a vulnerability, Dutch...
Read MoreBy Marilynn Larkin (Reuters Health) – Lack of knowledge among community physicians may be keeping them from raising the possibility of living donor transplants with their patients with liver disease, new survey data...
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By Djaffar Al Katanty BUNIA, Congo (Reuters) – Insecurity in northeast Congo has hampered a...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Just one in three patients enrolls in recommended cardiac rehabilitation after having a blocked heart artery cleared and a stent inserted, a Michigan study suggests. Despite benefits...
Read MoreBy Rob Goodier (Reuters Health) – Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may affect as many as 37% of adults in North, Central and South America, according to a review of epidemiological studies presented June 9 at Sleep 2019, the...
Read MoreBy Rob Goodier (Reuters Health) – Poor sleep may be linked to a greater risk for poor mental health on college campuses, new research suggests. With each night of insufficient sleep, the risk of mental health symptoms...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) – Trust in vaccines – one of the...
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MUZAFFARPUR, India (Reuters) – More than 110 children in India, most from poor rural...
Read MoreMELBOURNE (Reuters) – Voluntary euthanasia became legal in the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday, with the government saying it had extensive safeguards to prevent the process being misused while allowing people a...
Read MoreBy Matthias Blamont and Kate Kelland PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) – For Marie-Claire Grime, who works in a pharmacy northeast of Paris, questions about vaccines are a daily challenge. They come mainly from parents who say...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Mid-life women with weak upper and lower body fitness...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Long-term use of prescription opioids for chronic pain is more common among people who are overweight or obese, a new study finds. As a group, these individuals are more likely to use...
Read More(Reuters) – Online pharmacy Valisure reported that it found a new cancer-causing impurity in some versions of widely prescribed blood pressure medicine valsartan, but U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that the amount in the...
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By Hallie Gu and Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) – China will block pork imports from a...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – More patients are bringing pictures of their skin problems to their dermatologists, which helps the doctors better observe the progression and potentially diagnose the condition,...
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(Reuters) – The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has no provisions that would force...
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