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ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland, which permits low potency cannabis but bans most marijuana for recreational use, aims to allow pilot studies on ways to relax its laws, its government said on Wednesday. It also proposed...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who struggle to get pregnant or use reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be more likely to have preemies and kids with birth defects than their peers who...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Many breast cancer patients may miss out on genetic tests that could help pinpoint the ideal treatment regimen at least in part because their surgeons are uncomfortable discussing the...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Heroin use is increasing in Kenya’s coastal communities as international traffickers use them as a transit point for drugs bound from Afghanistan to the West, creating health and social problems,...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – A U.S. government investigation of allegations that doctors were implanting heart-shocking defibrillators into patients who didn’t meet federal guidelines led to a dramatic reduction...

By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Minor strokes and “mini-strokes,” or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), need early medical attention, just like major strokes, but a public education campaign in the UK had...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy may be more likely to experience it again later or be diagnosed with other risk factors for heart disease like high cholesterol or...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – More than half of U.S. teens overestimate how often their peers smoke hookah, and a new study suggests this makes them more than nine times more likely to try it themselves....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Urban youngsters are almost twice as likely as rural youth to be hospitalized for gun injuries, a U.S. study suggests. That’s largely because youth 15 to 19 years in cities are...

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Most people with severe allergies have filled their prescriptions for epinephrine auto-injectors, but fewer than half carry the devices with them, a new study suggests. About 40 percent...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania has reported an outbreak of African swine fever at a breeding farm for pigs in the southern county of Tulcea, the national food safety authority ANSVSA said on Monday. It said all pigs on the...