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By Tom Daly BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Friday an outbreak of African swine fever had been confirmed in Tianjin, the first to be reported in the municipality located just southeast of...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Patients, their families and friends may see clinical trial research as important, yet they don’t know much about the research process and see trial participation as burdensome, a...

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Women who have asthma during their pregnancies are more likely to experience postpartum depression after delivery, a large Canadian study suggests. Physicians should watch for signs of...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – An initiative to replace the use of live animals with a human simulator for trauma surgery practice got training programs in more than 20 countries to make the switch, saving them money...

BEIJING (Reuters) – A new outbreak of African swine fever has been detected in China’s northeastern Liaoning province, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, the province’s third case this week. The latest...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Although nail polish manufacturers have begun removing some toxic ingredients, their labels are not always accurate and the reformulated products aren’t necessarily safer, suggests...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Having a type of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation (AF) may raise an individual’s risk of developing dementia, but treating AF with blood thinners seems to reduce...

By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock (Reuters Health) – – Online socializing may weaken the tie between pain and depression for older people, a U.S. study suggests. People in chronic pain are at risk of depression to start...

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – France’s highest court threw out on Wednesday a 2015 ruling that cleared a German certifier of negligence after it approved faulty breast implants produced with counterfeit silicone. The...