Co-owner, ex-employee of pharmacy in U.S. meningitis outbreak acquitted
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday tossed the convictions of a...
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday tossed the convictions of a...
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Joe Biden Express to the 2020 Democratic...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with inflammatory bowel disease – either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis – may incur health costs more than three times higher than individuals without...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – With increased access to insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, fewer middle-aged people are dying from heart disease, a U.S. study suggests. Under the ACA,...
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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – If you’re talking vitamin D and expecting it to lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes when you get older, it’s time to lower your expectations. A new study, the largest of...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Fewer and fewer psychiatrists are accepting Medicaid even as increasing numbers of patients have gained mental health coverage through expansion of the program, a new study suggests. The...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission on Friday issued warning letters to four flavored e-liquid product makers, stepping up pressure on firms using social media influencers to...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Three people have died in northern England and three more are seriously ill from food poisoning thought to have resulted from eating contaminated pre-packaged sandwiches served in hospitals, Public...
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By Tamara Mathias (Reuters Health) – People who step on the scale every day during holidays tend to avoid gaining extra pounds, a new U.S. study suggests. Nutrition researcher Jamie Cooper of the University of Georgia and...
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian chicken exports to China grew by 49% in May compared to the same period last year as the Asian nation imported more meat to deal with an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) that has...
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Friday...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Mohammad Ahmadi, a young opium farmer in the southern...
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(Reuters) – A move to authorize a referendum over Missouri’s recently enacted ban on abortions after the eighth week of pregnancy hit a roadblock on Thursday when the secretary of state rejected petitions filed by...
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(Reuters) – Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc said http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnews/htmlnews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e37541&u=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20190606:nBw4wRKsa on Thursday it would acquire privately held Exonics Therapeutics...
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By Rob Goodier (Reuters Health) – Young adults may be more likely than older folks to go online to find health information, and less likely to view tobacco products as “very harmful,” according to survey...
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Roughly a quarter of Ebola infections in eastern...
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(Reuters) – Independent experts of an FDA advisory panel voted in favor of the not-for-profit TB Alliance’s treatment for drug resistant tuberculosis, as a part of a three-drug combination regimen. The panel on...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – An experimental app may help people learn to meditate, which in turn yields improvements in attention span and working memory, a new study suggests. Over the course of six weeks a group...
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – When healthy international travelers visit a city with higher levels of particle pollution than at home, their heart and lung function quickly deteriorate, a small study suggests....
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(Reuters) – Opko Health Inc said on Thursday it was notified by its former billing collections vendor about unauthorized access to information on about 422,600 customers, making it the third healthcare company to be...
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