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Powerful Senate committee invites pharma executives to testify

Feb 4, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A powerful U.S. Senate committee on Monday invited seven...

Custom pain creams do little for chronic pain relief

Feb 4, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Compounded pain creams are no better for chronic pain than topical treatments that contain no medicine at all, a U.S. study suggests. Compounded medicines are custom-blended by...

Senator Sanders asks why drug, once free, now costs $375k

Feb 4, 2019

By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to...

Parents who don’t buckle up often skip seatbelts for their kids

Feb 4, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Drivers who don’t wear seatbelts are more likely to skip seatbelts and car seats for their kids, an analysis of U.S. crash data suggests. When the driver in a crash wasn’t...

Cancer patients may need longer support to quit smoking

Feb 4, 2019

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients are more successful at giving up cigarettes for good if they take smoking-cessation medicine for 24 weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks, a small clinical trial suggests....

Poland detects mad cow disease on farm: OIE

Feb 4, 2019

PARIS (Reuters) – Poland has reported a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) among cattle on a farm near the Czech border, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. The...

Obesity-related cancers rising in U.S. young adults

Feb 4, 2019

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Mirroring the decades-long increase in obesity rates in the U.S., cancers that are thought to be driven at least in part by excess weight are also on the rise among people under age 50,...

FDA approves cheaper Botox rival to treat frown lines

Feb 4, 2019

(This Feb. 1 story has been corrected to remove reference to dosage in paragraph 7) By Manas...

Desperate Mongolians send children into countryside to escape choking winter smog

Feb 4, 2019

By Munkhchimeg Davaasharav ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) – Mongolia has extended school winter...

Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize ‘magic mushrooms’

Feb 2, 2019

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Denver voters will decide in May whether to decriminalize possession of small amounts of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, which would make it the first U.S. city to halt prosecution...

U.S. high court temporarily blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions

Feb 1, 2019

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily...

Exclusive: Top U.S. insurer to cover Amgen, Eli Lilly migraine drugs, exclude Teva

Feb 1, 2019

By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) – A top U.S. pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by...

Pilgrim’s Pride latest company to recall chicken products over rubber contamination

Feb 1, 2019

(Reuters) – Pilgrim’s Pride Corp is recalling about 60,000 pounds of chicken products due to possible rubber contamination, a U.S. public health watchdog said on Friday, making it the third American meat producer in...

FDA declines to approve Alkermes opioid-based depression drug

Feb 1, 2019

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday declined to approve Alkermes Plc’s opioid-based depression treatment, citing the need for additional data to prove the effectiveness of the drug. The...

Mother’s friendships may be good for babies’ brains

Feb 1, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – When new mothers have friends ready to step in and help them, they have toddlers who score better on cognitive tests than the babies of women with smaller social support networks, a U.S....

Novartis’s cancer therapy wins UK backing after initial lymphoma snub

Feb 1, 2019

ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis’s Kymriah cell therapy won the blessing of health...

Use of Valium and Xanax for pain rising in U.S.

Feb 1, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – A growing number of people in the U.S. are taking anti-anxiety drugs like Valium and Xanax not just for anxiety or depression but also for chronic pain, researchers say. These drugs are...