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SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A growing outbreak of “red tide” has put salmon farms on alert in fish-rich southern Chile, an industry group said on Thursday, though its impact is still far less extensive than in 2016, when a much larger outbreak decimated fish farms.
Source: Reuters Medical News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp is removing cheeseburgers from U.S. Happy Meal menus and shrinking the french fry serving in one “Mighty Meal” as part of a new global plan to cut calories and make its food for children more healthy.
Source: Reuters Medical News
GENEVA (Reuters) – Women in labor should be given more time to give birth and have fewer medical interventions, while participating more in decision-making, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Source: Reuters Medical News
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Indivior is launching a new weapon to fight the U.S. opioid crisis this month, but high hopes for its once-monthly injection were offset on Thursday by the need to set aside more cash for legal disputes.
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PARIS (Reuters) – French pharma company Ipsen expects to bring more drugs to combat cancer, rare diseases and mobility impairment into its pipeline this year and has around one billion euros ($1.25 billion) for asset purchases, its chief executive said.
Source: Reuters Medical News
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has reported the first human case of the H7N4 strain of bird flu in a woman in an eastern coastal province, though she has since recovered.
Source: Reuters Medical News
(Reuters) – Citing rising opioid fatalities, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Wednesday announced a renewed legislative proposal to tax prescription opioid pills to help fund treatment.
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Erleada for use in prostate cancer patients whose disease has not spread but continues to grow despite hormone therapy.
Source: Reuters Medical News
(Reuters Health) – Women whose postpartum depression lasts for several months are at heightened risk of having depression that lingers for years and it may affect their children, showing up as behavior problems and increased depression risk in the teenage years, a UK study suggests.
Source: Reuters Medical News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States health spending is projected to rise 5.3 percent in 2018, reflecting rising prices of medical goods and services and higher Medicaid costs, a U.S. government health agency said on Wednesday, an upward trend it forecasts for the next decade.
Source: Reuters Medical News