Tag Archives: Health / Medicine

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China's new health insurance regulator will begin negotiations with domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of cancer drugs in an attempt to reduce the financial burden …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson has vowed to appeal a $ 4.7 billion verdict awarded to 22 women who claim that talcum powder contaminated with asbestos in the company's products …

ZURICH / LONDON (Reuters) – Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche ( ROG.S ) is paying $ 2.4 billion to buy the rest of Foundation Medicine (FMI) ( FMI.O ]), increasing its commitment to …

(Reuters Health) – Obese people with osteoarthritis of the knee, a painful joint disease, may find more relief from symptoms when they lose more weight than when they lose fewer pounds, a …

(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday that its treatment of two drugs for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, met its main goal in the latest stage studies. FILE PHOTO: The GlaxoSmithKline …

(Reuters Health) – Prostate cancer patients who smoke are more likely to return to tumors, spread to other parts of the body and become fatal than non-smokers, a new study suggests. Researchers …

LONDON, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than three million cases of dengue fever, the fastest growing tropical disease in the world, could be prevented annually if global warming is limited …

BELFAST (Reuters) – Hundreds of women's rights activists gathered in Belfast on Monday to pressure British Prime Minister Theresa May to reform the highly restrictive abortion rules of Northern Ireland after Ireland's …

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland is set to liberalize some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world after exit polls suggested a crushing vote for change in what was until recently …

DAKAR (Reuters) – With more than twice as many Ebola outbreaks as any country since the virus was discovered in 1976, Congolese people are familiar with its destructive power, although fear and …