Study in WHO journal likens palm oil lobbying to tobacco and alcohol industries
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – – Many migraine sufferers avoid alcohol, saying it can trigger the severe headaches, a survey found. Among more than 2,000 migraine patients in the Netherlands, more than a third...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women with breast cancer who get newer genetic tests to estimate their risk of recurrence may not be any more anxious about their test results than their peers who get older tests that...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – For people who have trouble concentrating, help may be on the way through a new game app that helps improve the ability to focus just by playing. Researchers documented improvements in...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Cancer survivors have higher-than-average rates of medical financial hardship, a U.S. study suggests. Medical financial hardship includes problems paying bills and other challenges with...
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the...
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By Reuters Staff LONDON (Reuters) – – A tiny sliver of elastic material swims along inside a narrow tube, coiling up and changing shape in response to the thickness of fluid and the contours of the tube around it as...
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By Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) – Two former managers of French meat-processing firm Spanghero and two Dutch meat traders go on trial in Paris on Monday accused of passing off cheap horse meat as pricier beef in...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry on Sunday reported a new African swine fever outbreak in the northwestern region of Ningxia. The outbreak occurred on a farm with 57 live pigs in Yongning county,...
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By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – In many cases, veterans get a first appointment at VA hospitals quicker than the general public gets first appointments with health care providers, government researchers report. The...
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(Reuters) – AbbVie Inc said on Friday its blockbuster cancer treatment in combination with...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older adults who have exercised regularly for at least a year may be less likely to experience falls or related injuries than their less active peers, a research review suggests....
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women going through menopause may have fewer symptoms of...
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved a...
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By Ankur Banerjee (Reuters Health) – When people with heart failure are hospitalized, having influenza is tied to greater odds of respiratory and kidney complications and a higher chance they won’t survive to be...
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By Ankur Banerjee and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co said on Friday that its...
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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Researchers are reporting a link between doctor-targeted marketing of opioid products and the increase in U.S. deaths from overdoses. In a county-by-county analysis, they found that when...
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By Tamara Mathias and Saumya Joseph (Reuters) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was divided over whether to recommend approval of a treatment for type 1 diabetes developed by Lexicon...
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(Reuters) – Immunomedics Inc said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to grant accelerated approval for its breast cancer treatment, sacituzumab. The company said it will request a meeting with the...
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Television advertising in the U.S. for candy, fast food, sugary drinks and other unhealthy treats continues to target mostly black and Hispanic youth, according to a new report that...
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