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Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
By Makini Brice and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to repair treatment centers and reach the epicenter of one…
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Mylan to pay $465 mn over EpiPen overcharges to Medicaid
Mylan will pay $465 million to resolve accusations from some regulators that it overbilled the federal Medicaid program for the EpiPen allergy medication, the drugmaker announced Friday. The settlement with the Department of Justice and some other regulators resolves questions about Mylan's classification of EpiPen as a generic drug, the drugmaker said. Mylan said it…
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UK nurse who got Ebola in West Africa hospitalized again
LONDON (AP) — A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been hospitalized for a fourth time.
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Zika-related birth defects likely higher than anticipated: panel
By Bill Berkrot BOSTON (Reuters) – The risk posed by the Zika virus to developing fetuses is likely far greater than current estimates suggest, a top U.S. health official said on Thursday. Microcephaly, a rare birth defect in which babies develop abnormally small heads, is one of a constellation of Zika-associated problems increasingly being seen…
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Monsanto ally Novozymes sees opportunity, risk in Bayer merger
Novozymes , already grappling with the consequences of low oil and crop prices, is watching anxiously to see what Bayer's purchase of Monsanto will mean for the Danish group's ties with its key agricultural partner. Chief Executive Peder Holk Nielsen said in an interview that a merged Bayer-Monsanto could extend the market for the company's…
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Cancer patients may be overly optimistic about early drug trial participation
By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – People with cancer may overestimate the possible benefits to them of participating in an early trial of a new medicine, even after talking with a doctor about what to expect, according to a new study from the U.K. So-called phase 1 trials of experimental treatments are intended to…
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More U.S. babies born addicted to opiates like heroin
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The proportion of U.S. babies born suffering from withdrawal syndrome after exposure to heroin or prescription opiates in utero has more than doubled in less than a decade, a study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition akin to withdrawal that develops when babies…
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Mother uncovers lasting impact of baby son’s organ donation
An ultrasound showed one of Sarah Gray's unborn twins was missing part of his brain, a fatal birth defect. His brother was born healthy but Thomas lived just six days. Latching onto hope for something …
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UK doctors call off strike action
The British Medical Association (BMA) had planned a full withdrawal of labor by junior doctors on Oct. 5-7 and 10-11, Nov. 14-18 and Dec. 5-9, which would have been the longest stoppages in the nearly 70-year history of the National Health Service. Junior doctors – a term covering recent medical school graduates right through to…
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How have the U.N.’s global goals fared one year on?
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders one year ago agreed on an ambitious set of global goals designed to tackle the world’s most troubling problems such as extreme poverty and inequality by 2030 at the United Nations. Described as a blueprint for the future, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…