By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Across the world, one person takes their own life every 40 seconds, and more people die by suicide every year than in war, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Hanging, poisoning...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Juul Labs Inc on Monday for...
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s cancer treatment Imfinzi has been shown to prolong...
Read More(Reuters) – The United States recorded only seven new measles cases last week, the lowest number so far this year, bringing the total for cases to 1,241 in the worst outbreak since 1992, federal health officials said on...
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By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis <NOVN.S> Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan,...
Read More(Reuters) – Drug developer Neurotrope Inc’s shares tumbled nearly 80% on Monday after the company said its experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease did not meet the main goal of a mid-stage study. This is...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Guangdong province said it will release 3,150 tonnes of...
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By Kate Kelland LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Malaria can be eradicated within a generation,...
Read MoreBy Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – An Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by a privately held Slovakian biotech firm showed early signs of efficacy in a mid-stage trial, a rare step forward in the fight against the...
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By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co’s LOXO-292, a experimental cancer...
Read MoreBy Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) – Dead pigs found in some backyard farms in the Philippines tested positive for African swine fever, the country’s agriculture chief said on Monday, the first outbreak of the...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Heatwaves in June and July caused about 1,500 more deaths than usual in...
Read MoreBy Deena Beasley (Reuters) – An experimental Amgen Inc drug that targets a specific genetic mutation reduced tumor size in around half of advanced lung cancer patients given the highest dose in a small, early-stage trial,...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua has urged the country’s main hog...
Read MoreBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The owner of a telemarketing company implicated in the largest component of a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud involving the supply of medically unnecessary orthotic braces pleaded guilty to...
Read MoreBy Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Certain psychiatric conditions may prompt some women to choose to have their ovaries removed even when there is no medical justification for it, a new study suggests. “Some women...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Researchers say women who frequently remove most or all of their pubic hair are no more likely to contract chlamydia or gonorrhea than women who don’t practice “extreme...
Read More(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim’s Ofev capsules for a rare lung disorder. The drug is first FDA-approved treatment for this condition, the...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – At leading U.S. medical schools, education of future doctors about racism, promotion of diversity, and service of patients of color are in need of improvement, survey results suggest....
Read MoreTORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s main pharmaceutical industry lobby group, along with 16 of its member companies, filed a lawsuit on Friday to block new regulations meant to lower patented drug prices, the second legal...
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