(Reuters Health) – People who get plenty of exercise are less likely to have heart attacks and strokes than their inactive counterparts, even when they have a genetic predisposition for heart disease, a U.K. study suggests.
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(Reuters Health) – When a transgender youth chooses a new name, it’s important for friends, relatives and acquaintances to use that chosen name, a new study suggests.
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LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline’s new shingles vaccine – a priority product as the company strives to improve its drugs line-up – has won more than 90 percent U.S. market share just five months after its launch, prescription-tracking data show.
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(Reuters) – AbbVie Inc and Neurocrine Biosciences Inc said on Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified the companies that it requires more time to review the marketing application for their uterine pain drug.
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(Reuters) – Mylan NV will buy global marketing rights to an experimental multiple sclerosis treatment from Israel’s Mapi Pharma, aiming to strengthen its position in the market for MS drugs and counter falling sales of its emergency allergy shot EpiPen.
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(Reuters) – Drug developer Loxo Oncology said on Tuesday it is partnering with genetic testing company Illumina Inc on a diagnostic tool that will work with Loxo’s larotrectinib and another one of its experimental cancer drugs, across tumor types.
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker-for-hire Lonza is betting that trillions of customized viruses made at a giant factory in Texas will be the lucrative raw materials of a medical revolution.
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(Reuters) – Alzheimer’s researchers have proposed a radical change in the way the disease is defined, focusing on biological changes in the body rather than clinical symptoms such as memory loss and cognitive decline.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration took additional steps to weaken Obamacare on Monday, allowing U.S. states to relax the rules on what insurers must cover and giving states more power to regulate their individual insurance markets.
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(Reuters) – Mississippi’s last remaining abortion provider expanded a federal challenge on Monday to laws that ban abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy and block access to the procedure in myriad ways, it said.
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