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  • Want to detect gluten on the go? There’s a device for that

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    By Ben Gruber SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California startup has developed a portable technology that will allow consumers to test their food for gluten on the go. “Even when you go out and see these labeled menu items, you are still playing Russian roulette,” said Shireen Yates, co-founder and chief executive of NIMA, which…

  • 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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – After Ohio enacted a law forcing abortion providers to prescribe an outdated drug regimen, women who received medication abortions there were more likely to experience complications and higher prices, a study shows.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…

  • U.S. drugmaker Biogen’s profit beats Street; CEO to leave

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    (Reuters) – Biogen Inc's quarterly adjusted profit blew past Wall Street estimates on higher sales of its multiple sclerosis drugs, and the company said Chief Executive George Scangos would leave in the coming months. Shares of the company, whose board also authorized a $5 billion share repurchase program, rose about 5 percent to $276 in…

  • U.S. drugmaker Biogen’s profit beats Street; CEO to leave

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    (Reuters) – Biogen Inc's quarterly adjusted profit blew past Wall Street estimates on higher sales of its multiple sclerosis drugs, and the company said Chief Executive George Scangos would leave in the coming months. Shares of the company, whose board also authorized a $5 billion share repurchase program, rose about 5 percent to $276 in…

  • Theranos hires executives to lead regulatory and compliance push

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    (Reuters) – Theranos Inc hired two executives to oversee regulatory, quality and compliance standards, in a bid to turn around the struggling blood-testing company after it received sanctions from U.S. regulators.

  • Roche beats forecasts on new drugs and one-off gain

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    By Ludwig Burger BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) – Switzerland's Roche beat market expectations for adjusted net income in the first six months of the year, helped by cancer drug sales but also inflated by a one-off gain from its pensions scheme. Core earnings per share, adjusted for certain items, rose 7 percent to 7.74 Swiss francs…

  • Researchers developing effective chlamydia vaccine

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    Researchers at McMaster University, Canada, have presented the first promising steps towards a vaccine against chlamydia, a “silent” sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects 113 million people worldwide each year and which can lead to infertility. The research, published in the journal Vaccine, could help protect people all over the world from chlamydia. If left…

  • ‘Sugar daddies’ and ‘blessers’: A threat to AIDS fight

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    Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. In South Africa, seven million people live with HIV — and older men are thought to be largely to blame for the shockingly high rate of infections among teenage girls and young women. Age-gap…

  • Cricket-Golf’s Rio exodus may hit sport’s Olympic prospects – ICC

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    High-profile withdrawals of male golfers from next month’s Rio Games might damage cricket’s chances of becoming an Olympic sport, fears the International Cricket Council (ICC). Golf’s return to Olympics for the first time since 1904 has been hit by big-name male withdrawals over health concerns triggered by the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil.…