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ZURICH (Reuters) – Drugmaker Polyphor is hiring new managers and shifting focus after a trial of its top antibiotic hopeful proved too dangerous to continue, the Swiss company said on Wednesday. Chief Financial Officer...

(Reuters) – Novartis AG’s gene therapy for blindness, Luxturna, is recommended for use on England’s public health service, the country’s healthcare cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE said on Tuesday....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Exercise can do more to lower the risk of premature death for patients with cardiovascular disease than for healthy people, a new study suggests. Healthy people did have a lower chance...

By Will Boggs MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a high risk of developing breast cancer can lower that risk by taking certain medications, according to updated recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – A growing number of extremely tiny newborns are being sent home from the hospital with human milk for feedings when their mothers don’t produce enough milk to meet their...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Consumption of soft drinks, whether they’re sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners, may raise the risk of premature death, new research suggests. In a study that followed...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Tiny bits of plastic may be getting into our bodies via the air we breathe and the food we eat, a new study suggests. Researchers who examined stool samples from eight people from...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Over the past decade, the number of children and teens in the U.S diagnosed with tuberculosis has decreased by nearly half, according to a new study. But that good news doesn’t...

By Gene Emery A new study offers some advice for doctors poking around the heart to reopen a clogged artery that has caused one type of heart attack: Come back again to finish the job. The study found that when doctors also open...

BEIJING (Reuters) – A city in southern China is selling a limited quantity of pork at discounted prices to help consumers cope with soaring prices, as the world’s top pork-eating nation deals with a meat shortage...

By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters Health) – For obese diabetics in a large U.S. study, weight-loss surgery was linked with a significant reduction in long-term rates of major cardiovascular problems. The study doesn’t...