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  • Haiti fights losing battle against cholera

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    Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Plastic-sheeted cots for men, women and children are crammed side by side in a former hangar. At the cholera treatment center in the Haitian city of Carrefour, the sick have no privacy. Djelile Pierre gingerly uses a syringe to feed her five-year-old daughter, who has been hospitalized there near the capital of…

  • 2011 Ohio law made abortions riskier, more costly

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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – After Ohio enacted a law forcing abortion providers to prescribe an outdated drug regimen, women who received medication abortions there were more likely to experience complications and higher prices, a study shows. “That’s what happens when laws aren’t based on scientific evidence,” said lead researcher Ushma Upadhyay, of…

  • ResMed seeks patent injunction on Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

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    ResMed Inc said on Thursday it has filed legal action to stop the alleged infringement of its patented technology by New Zealand-based medical device manufacturer Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. ResMed said in a statement it filed legal action with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California…

  • U.S. agency denies petition to reclassify marijuana

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    WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday denied requests to stop classifying marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use, leaving users and businesses in limbo after many states have legalized it for medical or recreational purposes. The DEA though did relax certain restrictions on growing marijuana for research purposes.…

  • UCLA study finds why some cancers stop responding to immunotherapy

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    Researchers have for the first time identified mechanisms that enable advanced melanoma to become resistant to a new class of drugs, known as immunotherapies, which work by enlisting the body’s own immune system to fight the disease. “This will help us to better design the next generation of treatment,” said Dr Antoni Ribas, director of…

  • Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan enters rehab for drug abuse

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    Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Chaka Khan has postponed all performances for this month after checking herself into a drug addiction rehabilitation program, her representatives said in a message posted on her website. The treatment was described only as “an addiction rehabilitation and aftercare program” that would require her to “postpone all dates scheduled for the…

  • Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan enters rehab for drug abuse

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    Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Chaka Khan has postponed all performances for this month after checking herself into a drug addiction rehabilitation program, her representatives said in a message posted on her website. The treatment was described only as “an addiction rehabilitation and aftercare program” that would require her to “postpone all dates scheduled for the…

  • Thumb suckers less prone to allergies: New Zealand study

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    Infants who suck their thumbs or bite their nails appear less prone to allergies as adults, New Zealand researchers have found. Researchers then followed up by giving them allergy skin prick tests when they were aged 13 and 32. The allergy level fell to 31 percent for children who did both.

  • FDA approves Shire’s keenly-watched eye drug

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    (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Shire Plc's lifitegrast eye drops for treating signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, allowing the company to bring to market its most important pipeline medicine. Lifitegrast, which will be marketed as Xiidra in the United States, is expected to launch in the third…

  • Fentanyl, the powerful drug that killed Prince, presents growing threat

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    By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) – Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that a medical examiner identified as the drug that killed the superstar Prince six weeks ago, has been responsible for an epidemic of overdose deaths around the United States, according to federal officials. The most potent narcotic known, it is a man-made opioid 50 times…