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Sanofi blood disorder drug wins FDA approval

Feb 6, 2019

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday it had approved Sanofi SA’s drug to treat a rare blood-clotting disorder in adults in combination with standard-of-care treatments. The...

Exclusive: Facing crackdown in Canada, drugmakers offered billions in price cuts

Feb 6, 2019

By Allison Martell and Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian pharmaceutical...

Eli Lilly backs U.S. proposal on drug rebates to lower costs

Feb 6, 2019

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday embraced a U.S. government...

Return of French farmer’s case keeps Monsanto in legal spotlight

Feb 6, 2019

By Catherine Lagrange LYON, France (Reuters) – A decade-old lawsuit in which a French farmer...

Swine fever spreads in Japan, 15,000 pigs to be culled

Feb 6, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s swine fever outbreak has spread to five prefectures...

Roche, joining rivals, donates hemophilia drug to boost access

Feb 6, 2019

ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s Roche will donate its new hemophilia A drug Hemlibra...

Bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces bill to fight high drug prices

Feb 5, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators re-introduced a bill on Tuesday...

Breakfast may not help keep pounds off

Feb 5, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The idea that skipping breakfast contributes to weight gain doesn’t mean that eating breakfast can help with weight loss, a research review suggests. Researchers examined data from...

E-prescribing bounces back after hurricanes only if infrastructure does too

Feb 5, 2019

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The e-prescription system bounced back quickly after two out of three major 2017 hurricanes, a new U.S. study finds. Recovery took much longer after the third, Hurricane Maria, most...

U.S. jury orders Takeda to pay Bayer $155 million over hemophilia drug

Feb 5, 2019

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. jury has ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s...

With self-compression, women suffer less and mammogram quality not at all

Feb 5, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – There are many reasons women dislike mammograms, chief among them the awkward and often painful process of having their breasts squashed by a technician into a machine that flattens them...

Merck CEO Frazier to testify at Senate drug pricing hearing

Feb 5, 2019

By Michael Erman and Yasmeen Abutaleb NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Merck...

WHO and vaccine group back ‘critical’ cervical cancer shots

Feb 5, 2019

(This Feb. 4 story corrects seventh para to say Merck’s Gardasil vaccine targets nine (not...

U.S. hurricane response slower in Puerto Rico than in Florida, Texas: study

Feb 5, 2019

By Ankur Banerjee (Reuters Health) – The U.S. government’s response in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 fell short of federal responses to other major storms that year, researchers say. The U.S. deployed...

GSK pays up to $4.2 billion for Merck KGaA cancer immunotherapy

Feb 5, 2019

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline bolstered its cancer drug development...

Most U.S. kids not meeting sleep, exercise and screen time targets

Feb 5, 2019

(This February 4 story corrects location in fourth paragraph to Houston) By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Just one in 20 U.S. children and teens gets the amount of sleep, exercise and screen time that doctors recommend...