(Reuters Health) – Insurance companies may be asking people to shell out more money for drug co-payments than the drugs actually cost, a new study suggests.
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Teva rebuffs EU pay-for-delay charge at hearing
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Israeli drugmaker Teva rebuffed EU antitrust charges of making an illegal deal with rival Cephalon to delay selling a cheaper generic version of the latter’s sleep disorder drug at a hearing on Tuesday.
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Loneliness doesn’t drive seniors to see more doctors
(Reuters Health) – Older adults who are socially isolated may not necessarily see doctors or visit health clinics more often than their peers who have close ties to many friends and family members, a research review suggests.
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German doctor warns physicians: never again partake in atrocities
When she was a child in Germany, Dr. Franziska Eckert’s family minimized the role her grandparents played in World War II. Then her own investigation uncovered the likely truth – her grandfather was a mass murderer.
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Namibia records first listeria case after it kills 180 in South Africa
WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s health minister said on Tuesday it had recorded its first case of listeriosis, the biggest recorded outbreak of which has killed over 180 people and infected almost 970 in neighboring South Africa.
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Doctors across Zimbabwe go on strike over pay, drug shortages
HARARE (Reuters) – Doctors at public hospitals across Zimbabwe have gone on strike and will not return to work until the government meets their demands for better pay and working conditions, a spokesman for a doctors’ unions said on Tuesday.
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Bhutan reports outbreak of severe H5N1 bird flu: OIE
PARIS (Reuters) – Bhutan has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus among backyard birds, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, citing a report from the country’s agriculture ministry.
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UnitedHealth names former GSK CEO Andrew Witty as Optum head
(Reuters) – Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc on Tuesday named its board member and former GlaxoSmithKline Plc head Andrew Witty as chief executive of its pharmacy benefit unit, Optum, effective July 1.
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Roche CEO says new drugs will offset biosimilar incursions
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche will be able to compensate or overcompensate for falling revenue from patent-expired drugs facing competition from rivals’ copies through its new medicines, Chief Executive Severin Schwan said on Tuesday.
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USDA withdraws proposal to stiffen rules for organic egg farms
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture scrapped proposed rules on Monday that for the first time would have mandated specific space requirements for hens laying organic eggs and spelled out what it means for the birds to have access to the outdoors.
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