WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed extending the availability of skimpy health insurance plans to millions of Americans in another Trump administration move aimed at undercutting the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Yasmira Castano felt she had a fresh chance at life when she received a kidney transplant almost two decades ago. The young Venezuelan was able to finish high school and went on to work as a manicurist.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s cholera epidemic continues to slow with seven deaths recorded over the last month, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said on Tuesday.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Nestle SA will launch its first organic food line in Brazil in the coming weeks, an executive told Reuters, as the world’s biggest food company makes a global push to capture growing interest in healthy and organic products.
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(Reuters) – U.S. drug developer Aimmune Therapeutics Inc said on Tuesday its peanut allergy drug met the main goal of an eagerly awaited late-stage study, sending its shares up 18 percent premarket.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia seized a record 1.6 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine from a ship off the northern island of Batam on Tuesday, a narcotics official said, the second major drug bust this month.
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(Reuters Health) – The number of babies dying of suffocation before their first birthday has been rising in recent years, driven at least in part by an increase in the number of parents sharing beds with their infants, a U.S. study suggests.
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(Reuters Health) – Injuries to a critical ligament in the knee are becoming more common in children and teens, researchers warn.
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(Reuters Health) – Babies who are born much too soon or who arrive weighing too little may not score as high on intelligence tests during childhood as full-term infants, a research review suggests.
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