(Reuters) – Switzerland’s Novartis AG is preparing to auction its U.S. generic pill business, looking to shed a unit that has struggled amid fierce price competition, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Shares of Apricus tank after FDA declines to OK erectile dysfunction cream
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday declined to approve Apricus Biosciences Inc’s Vitaros, a cream to treat erectile dysfunction, for the second time in a decade, sending the company’s shares down more than 70 percent before the opening bell.
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Pot Pharm: Booming Canada weed sector plots next-wave medicines
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canopy Growth Corp, one of the world’s biggest medical marijuana producers, now wants to take on the world’s pharmaceutical giants.
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Swiss skiers first athletes hit by norovirus at Games
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Two Swiss freestyle skiers are the first athletes confirmed to have been hit by a highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea at the Pyeongchang Winter Games, the Swiss Olympic team confirmed on Friday.
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U.S. officials warn 'intense' flu season to continue, urge shots
(Reuters) – Adults who get a flu shot are 36 percent less likely to get the disease, while for children the figure was an unexpectedly high 59 percent, U.S. health officials said on Thursday, predicting that the current “intense” season could continue for weeks.
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Making integrated care happen
| Michael Macdonnell, national director of health system transformation at NHS England, discusses integrated care and building on the work from the vanguard programme
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U.S. FDA looks to pave way for earlier-stage Alzheimer's drugs
(Reuters) – U.S. regulators have proposed lowering the bar for clinical trial success for experimental Alzheimer’s drugs to better align with the current emphasis on the need to treat people when they are in the earliest stages of the brain-wasting disease.
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Limb amputation rates for blocked arteries vary by race and setting
(Reuters Health) – Patients with severe blockages in leg arteries can sometimes be treated with surgery to reroute blood flow; otherwise they require amputation – which black patients are more likely than whites to get, according to a study of New York State data.
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Roche to buy Flatiron Health for $1.9 billion to expand cancer care portfolio
(Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Thursday it would buy the rest of U.S. cancer data company Flatiron Health for $1.9 billion to speed development of cancer medicines and support its efforts to price them based on how well they work.
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Breast MRIs may lead to more biopsies that catch fewer cancers
(Reuters Health) – Women who get magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening tests for breast cancer are more likely to get invasive surgical biopsies to look for tumors than women who just get screening mammograms, a U.S. study suggests.
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