This is a dummy test for home page
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The opioid crisis is rippling through the U.S. healthcare system, causing a spike in rates of hepatitis C related to increased opioid injections and reducing overall life expectancy among Americans, which has fallen for the second year in a row, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
Source: Reuters Medical News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Life expectancy in the United States dipped in 2016 as the number of deaths due to opioid drug overdoses surged and total drug overdose deaths rose 21 percent to 63,600, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
Source: Reuters Medical News
CHICAGO (Reuters) – As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease’s death toll.
Source: Reuters Medical News
LONDON (Reuters) – It is shaping up to be a bumper year for drug approvals, with U.S. officials clearing twice as many novel medicines as in 2016, yet returns on research investment at leading pharmaceutical companies are down.
Source: Reuters Medical News
| Richard Gleave, chief operating officer for PHE, reflects on this landmark decision
Related items from OnMedica Brexit: what’s next for UK science and patients? |
Source: OnMedica
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A new study sheds light on how the mosquito-borne Zika virus causes a rare neurological condition, and the findings could have implications for companies working on Zika vaccines, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Source: Reuters Medical News
(Reuters) – Revance Therapeutics Inc will wait to seek partnerships with bigger drugmakers until it is closer to regulatory approval for its Botox rival treatment, Chief Executive Dan Browne told Reuters in an interview.
Source: Reuters Medical News
BOSTON (Reuters) – Medtronic Plc has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve claims that the company engaged in a deceptive marketing strategy to promote its Infuse bone graft product used in spinal surgery, the Massachusetts attorney general said on Wednesday.
Source: Reuters Medical News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of consumers who signed up for 2018 Obamacare health insurance surpassed the 1 million mark in the second-to-last week of enrollment, the government said on Wednesday, but it did not appear to be enough to grow the program.
Source: Reuters Medical News
(Reuters Health) – Many cancer cases worldwide may happen at least in part because people are overweight or have diabetes, a new report suggests.
Source: Reuters Medical News