VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s tobacco regulator believes Philip Morris’s new electronic smoking device should be subject to the same advertising restrictions as tobacco, potentially dealing a blow to a product the company has touted as the future of smoking.
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(Reuters Health) – Infants are much less likely to get influenza or whooping cough when their mothers were vaccinated against these infections during pregnancy, and a new study suggests this doesn’t pose a safety risk for babies.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s NTP Radioisotopes, one of the world’s leading producers of Molybdenum-99 used in medical diagnostic imaging, resumed production at its Pelindaba facility after a three-month shutdown due to a suspected hydrogen leak, it said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany issued a decree on Wednesday to allow hunters to shoot wild boar year-round to stop the animals, which can carry African swine fever, from passing the deadly infection on to farm pigs.
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(Reuters Health) – Heart devices that use software or wireless communications may be vulnerable to hacker attacks that could cause life-threatening malfunctions, U.S. cardiologists say.
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(Reuters Health) – Sharing your “bucket list” could be easier than discussing end-of-life medical preferences, and it might be just as useful to your physician, researchers suggest.
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You may be familiar with the relatively new show on the ABC network, ‘The Good Doctor’. The concept of the show centers around a brilliant young surgical resident with autism spectrum disorder and Savant syndrome. In this exclusive video from MedPage Today — a trusted and reliable source for clinical and policy coverage that directly affects the lives and practices of health care professionals — Dr. John Higgins, MD, of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, provides a medical evaluation of the legitimacy and reality of the first episode of the hit show. Watch: ‘Good Doctor,’ Bad Cardiology
VIENNA (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Austrians have signed a petition calling for a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, campaign organisers said – using one of the new right-wing government’s signature policies to undermine another.
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(Reuters Health) – People who try to avoid junk food may lose similar amounts of weight on a low-carb or low-fat diet even when their genetics suggest that one of these options should be better for them, a U.S. study found.
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