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  • Drug shortages prompt question: are some medicines too cheap?

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    By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Philip Aubrey buys medicines for British government-funded hospitals across London, capital of the world's fifth-largest economy, but last year he struggled to secure supplies of a basic AIDS drug. Shortages of essential drugs, mostly generic medicines whose patents have long expired, are becoming increasing frequent globally, prompting the World…

  • Regeneron, Sanofi eczema drug clears hurdles in big trials

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    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi said on Friday their experimental treatment for eczema proved highly effective in two large studies, without serious side effects often seen with standard treatments for the chronic inflammatory skin disease. The drugmakers said they would seek U.S. approval this year for their injectable drug, dupilumab, based upon strong results in…

  • U.S., Canada issue joint alert on ‘ransomware’ after hospital attacks

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    The United States and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber alert, warning against a recent surge in extortion attacks that infect computers with viruses known as “ransomware,” which encrypt data and demand payments for it to be unlocked. The warning follows reports from several private security firms that they expect the crisis to…

  • Autism rate among U.S. children held steady 2010-2012: CDC

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    By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – Autism rates among U.S. children were unchanged between 2010 and 2012, but it remains too early to know whether a rise in diagnoses over the last decade has stabilized, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. In 2012, one out of every 68 school-aged…

  • U.S. district judge strikes down designation of MetLife as ‘too big to fail’

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    U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer on Wednesday struck down the designation made by the heads of the country's financial regulatory agencies that major insurer Metlife Inc. is systemically important to the U.S. financial system. MetLife had argued in court that the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) used a secretive and flawed process when, in 2014,…

  • Factbox: Impact of Zika virus on Olympic preparations

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    (Reuters) – Sports authorities across the world are scrambling to find out more about the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil as they make plans for August’s Rio Olympics. Below are the latest announcements: AUSTRALIA Australia’s Olympic Committee said no athletes have indicated they intended to withdraw, but it would “totally understand” if…

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    (Reuters) – Sports authorities across the world are scrambling to find out more about the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil as they make plans for August’s Rio Olympics. Below are the latest announcements: AUSTRALIA Australia’s Olympic Committee said no athletes have indicated they intended to withdraw, but it would “totally understand” if…

  • Brazilian studies aim to unravel Zika’s link to birth defects

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    By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – At Roberto Santos General Hospital in Salvador, Brazil, Dr. Antonio Almeida and a team of specialists are closely following two groups of women: Those who deliver babies with abnormally small heads and those who deliver apparently normal babies. The hospital is one of three in this city on Brazil’s eastern coast…

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    Sports authorities across the world are scrambling to find out more about the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil as they make plans for August’s Rio Olympics. Below are the latest announcements: AUSTRALIA Australia’s Olympic Committee said no athletes have indicated they intended to withdraw, but it would “totally understand” if they did.…

  • Gambia president declares country an Islamic republic

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    Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Friday declared the formerly secular country an Islamic republic in a move he said was designed to distance the West African state further from its colonial past. “In line with the country's religious identity and values, I proclaim Gambia as an Islamic state,” said Jammeh on state television. “As Muslims…