Aetna, seeking antitrust nod, sells Medicare drug business to WellCare
By Caroline Humer (Reuters) – Health insurer Aetna Inc <AET.N> said on Thursday it...
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By Caroline Humer (Reuters) – Health insurer Aetna Inc <AET.N> said on Thursday it...
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(Reuters) – U.S.-listed shares of GW Pharmaceuticals rose 8 percent on Thursday as its marijuana-based treatment Epidiolex cleared the last hurdle after the Drug Enforcement Administration labeled the drug as having a low...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A global coalition set up to fight emerging epidemics said on Thursday it would give up to $19 million to drugmaker Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine unit and Oxford University...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Inner Mongolia in northern China has detained four people for forging documents and illegally selling and transporting pigs from a province that has been hit by African swine fever, said the...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Middle-aged adults who avoid alcohol altogether, and...
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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Patients who have just survived a heart attack and...
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(In paragraph 2, changes “2016” to “2000” and in paragraph 3, corrects researcher’s affiliation.) By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – The judicial bypass process for abortion in Texas could be...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Mothers have long been told that “breast is best” when it comes to feeding newborn babies, but a small experiment suggests at least some of the benefits may have nothing to...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People living with HIV might someday be able to combat the virus with twice-a-year infusions of anti-HIV antibodies instead of daily antiretroviral pills, two preliminary experiments...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Whether you survive a cardiac arrest may depend, at least in part, on which emergency medical services agency shows up to treat you, a new study suggests. Researchers found a wide...
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HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban research institutes said on Wednesday they were creating the first joint U.S.-Cuban biotech venture to be headquartered on the Communist-run island to bring new cancer therapies to U.S....
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A health worker in northern England has become the third person in Britain to contract a rare illness caused by a monkeypox virus after caring for a patient infected with the disease...
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – The Thai capital is considering jailing people who feed pigeons in...
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A hospital operator now owned by Community Health Systems Inc...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People struggling with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) might feel better with antidepressants or psychotherapy, a recent study suggests. People with IBS typically suffer from chronic...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Most men shouldn’t get routine prostate cancer screening because the potential benefits are small and there are clear harms, an international panel of experts concludes. Some men,...
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(Reuters) – The number of newborns born with syphilis has reached a 20-year high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, tracking a general increase in several sexually transmitted infections. The...
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By Johnny Cotton PARIS (Reuters) – Lesbian couples and single women who want to bear...
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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday an Ebola...
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 11,000 people in Sudan’s eastern state of Kassala have been infected over the past month by Chikungunya, a debilitating mosquito-borne viral disease, but no deaths...
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