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....
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBUCHAREST (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...
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LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca has won rapid regulatory approval for new uses of two of its...
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Monday that a trial showed its...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s public health service has started “significant...
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By Tina Bellon (Reuters) – A Missouri appeals court on Friday threw out a $55 million...
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday found that pharmaceutical company AbbVie...
Read MoreBy Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Giving birth in water, also known as immersion labor and delivery or waterbirth, appears safe for mother and baby, at least when it takes place in a hospital. Increasing numbers of...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women with undiagnosed celiac disease may be more likely to have miscarriages or stillbirths than women who never get this diagnosis, a Danish study suggests. Once celiac disease is...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Childhood cancer survivors who get plenty of vigorous exercise may live longer than their counterparts who aren’t very active, a recent study suggests. “In cancer survivors,...
Read More(Reuters) – Iowa’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a 72-hour waiting period for abortions signed into law last year, ruling it unconstitutional. Iowa, which separately in April passed the nation’s strictest...
Read MoreBy Cheryl Platzman Weinstock (Reuters Health) – National Guard soldiers may be plagued with sleep problems when they return home from the battlefield, according to a small study. For the new analysis, published online in...
Read MoreBy Sharnya G and Anuron Kumar Mitra (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pulmonx Inc’s valve to treat a severe form of obstructive lung disease, most often characterized by shortness...
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By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) – Rival cancer cell therapies from Swiss drugmaker Novartis...
Read MorePARIS (Reuters) – Ghana has reported two outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu on farms, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday, citing a report from Ghana’s agriculture...
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By Manas Mishra and Sharnya G (Reuters) – Dermira Inc <DERM.O> said on Friday its...
Read More(Reuters) – Puma Biotechnology Inc on Friday won a key recommendation from a European Medicines Agency panel on its lead breast cancer drug, five months after the regulator recommended against approving it. Shares of...
Read MoreBy Justin George Varghese (Reuters) – Indivior Plc got a breather on Friday as a U.S. court extended a restraining order blocking a rival from launching a generic version of its bestselling opioid addiction treatment in...
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