(Reuters Health) – Parents may be tempted to give teens an occasional taste of alcohol to teach responsible drinking habits, but a new study suggests this may have the opposite effect.
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Ghana reports severe bird flu on farm: OIE
PARIS (Reuters) – Ghana has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H9N2 bird flu virus on a farm in the southwest of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday, citing a report from Ghana’s agriculture ministry.
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Bristol-Myers to pay $1.85 billion in cancer deal with Nektar
(Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co will pay Nektar Therapeutics $1.85 billion for a global development and profit-sharing deal on a promising Nektar cancer drug, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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Cairo butcher offers shelter for children with cancer
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three years ago, Cairo butcher Zaza Ogaz decided to do something to help families bringing their children to a nearby cancer hospital.
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French retailers say they continued to receive Lactalis baby milk after recall
PARIS (Reuters) – French retailers, defending their role in a contaminated baby milk scandal on Wednesday, said they had received products after the recall deadline and that communication by dairy producer Lactalis was confusing.
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Bayer gets FDA rebuke for drug production in Germany
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer said it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over how it handled production of some drugs at its Leverkusen, Germany headquarters.
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Thailand bets on 'magic pills' to boost declining birth rate
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has tried cash bonuses and tax incentives to boost the country’s birth rate, but on Valentine’s Day today it adopted a new approach – handing out vitamin pills.
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Vigilant adherence to celiac diet linked with lower quality of life
(Reuters Health) – People with celiac disease who are extremely vigilant about not ingesting gluten may perceive that their quality of life is reduced, according to a new study.
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Merck scraps another late-stage Alzheimer's drug study
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc on Tuesday said it will end another late-stage trial of an Alzheimer’s drug because it was unlikely to work, adding to the pile-up of failures to find an effective treatment for the mind-wasting disease.
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Lactalis failed to report salmonella on a product -government official
PARIS (Reuters) – French dairy group Lactalis, facing a growing scandal over salmonella-tainted baby milk, did not report the bacteria had been found on products in the same factory in 2011, a government official said on Tuesday.
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