By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Black people in the U.S. are less likely than whites to take statins recommended to lower their cholesterol, and mistrust of the drugs and of doctors may partly explain the disparity, a...
Read MoreBy Manas Mishra and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Global Blood Therapeutics Inc’s sickle cell disease treatment met the main goal of a late-stage trial, but scepticism over whether the drug would get an accelerated...
Read More(Reuters) – Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Wednesday it planned to stop developing its main drug to treat bladder pain syndrome as it failed to meet the main goal of a late-stage trial, pushing its shares down as much...
Read MoreLUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia aims to eradicate malaria, the country’s biggest killer, within three years after deaths from the disease halved last year from 2014, the health minister said on Wednesday. Health Minister...
Read MoreTOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo, Japan’s capital and host of the 2020 Summer Olympics, passed a tough anti-smoking law on Wednesday that will effectively ban smoking in most of the city’s bars and restaurants in the...
Read MoreFRANKFURT (Reuters) – German chemicals group BASF has shut down production of ibuprofen at its plant in Bishop, Texas because of a technical problem, a spokesman for BASF said on Wednesday. The spokesman said it could take...
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s <AZN.L> oncology business...
Read MoreBEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) – China reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu at a farm in its northwest Qinghai province, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, citing a...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Women who include a lot of fiber in their diets may have a lower risk for problems with bowel control as they age, a study suggests. The inability to control bowel movements, or bowel...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – – Women who get abortions at clinics or doctors’ offices may be no more likely to experience serious complications than patients who have these procedures at surgery centers,...
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a...
Read MoreBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Some 21 percent of patients with advanced brain cancer treated with a modified polio vaccine were alive after three years, compared with 4 percent of patients with similar tumors...
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By Sharnya G and Manas Mishra (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared...
Read MoreBy Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women 65 and older should keep getting screened for osteoporosis, or porous, fragile bones that are prone to fractures, U.S. doctors recommend. Some younger women who have an increased...
Read More(Reuters) – Puma Biotechnology Inc said on Tuesday a committee of the European Medicines Agency was likely to give positive opinion on its breast cancer drug, five months after the regulator recommended against approving...
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By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) – BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc <BCLI.O> will not...
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By Tamara Mathias and Manas Mishra (Reuters) – The U.S. health regulator approved GW...
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MILTON KEYNES, England (Reuters) – Free, good quality healthcare for everyone, from cradle...
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MILTON KEYNES, England (Reuters) – Free, good quality healthcare for everyone, from cradle...
Read MoreLONDON (Reuters) – A venture capital fund dedicated to finding new ways to prevent and treat dementia has raised $350 million, far exceeding the initial target of $200 million set on its launch in 2015. The global Dementia...
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