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ZURICH (Reuters) – A drug being co-developed by Roche to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) helped improve development scores in babies with the genetic disease, a study released on Monday showed, as the race heats up for...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s DreaMed Diabetes said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for marketing its Advisor Pro software to help manage diabetes treatment. Advisor Pro is indicated to...

GENEVA (Reuters) – Outbreaks of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) killed 23 people in Saudi Arabia between Jan. 21 and May 31 this year, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The deaths were among...

(This June 12 story updates “hotspot list” in paragraph 3 after researchers announced an error in their report; also adds new final paragraph.) By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – A growing number of children...

(This June 14 story revises paragraph 2 to correct the number of women using PReP; revises paragraph 11 to remove a reference to a video that wasn’t part of the study.) By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Fear of...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Physicians who maintain board certification by regularly passing exams on current clinical guidelines may provide higher quality care than their colleagues who don’t, a U.S. study...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adolescents who don’t get enough sleep may be more likely to develop risk factors for heart disease like high blood pressure and excess body fat, a U.S. study suggests....

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Defibrillators implanted in the body to kickstart the heart can be lifesaving for some people, but as patients age they may face difficult conversations about when to replace or...

LUSAKA (Reuters) – A cholera outbreak in Zambia which killed 114 people and made more than 5,000 others sick over eight months has been contained, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said on Friday. “We have had 14...