GENEVA (Reuters) – An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not yet constitute an international public health emergency and there are strong reasons to think it can be brought under control, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s medicines regulator said it was assessing evidence that GlaxoSmithKline’s successful HIV drug dolutegravir might be linked to birth defects, adding it should not be prescribed to women seeking to become pregnant.
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(Reuters) – Amgen Inc won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on Thursday for the first drug in a new class designed to prevent migraine headaches in adults.
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(Reuters Health) – Public reporting of outcomes for a common procedure to clear blocked arteries was supposed to improve quality, but some doctors say it hasn’t delivered on the goal of enhancing patient care.
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(Reuters Health) – Girls who go through puberty early may be more likely than peers who mature later to be involved in bullying at school – either as victims or perpetrators, a recent study suggests.
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(Reuters Health) – Public reporting of outcomes for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was supposed to improve quality, but some doctors say it hasn’t delivered on the goal of enhancing patient care.
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(Reuters) – Fire investigators are examining whether the battery in an electronic cigarette triggered a small explosion that killed a man in Florida this month, sending fragments of the vape device into his skull, in what may be the first such fatality in the country.
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday listed drugmakers, including Celgene Corp , Johnson & Johnson , Gilead Sciences and Novartis AG , who the regulator says are potentially blocking access to samples of their drugs to delay generic competition.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from the world’s largest ever outbreak of the food-borne disease listeria has risen to 204, but the number of new cases has declined sharply after products were recalled, South African authorities said on Thursday.
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