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  • California bill to repeal ‘tampon tax’ heads to governor

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    California lawmakers on Tuesday sent a bill to end state sales taxes on feminine hygiene products to Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the latest success for a nationwide bipartisan effort to end the so-called tampon tax. The bill, which would add tampons, sanitary napkins and other menstrual products to a list of necessities like food and…

  • Britain seeks to fight the fat with soft drinks sugar levy

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    By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies which sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programmes to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children. Urging food and drinks firms to act swiftly to cut sugar in their products,…

  • China approves use of GSK vaccine Cervarix for cervical cancer

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    Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Monday the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Cervarix, for use in the country to help women fight cervical cancer. GSK's China unit said in a statement Cervarix will be the first HPV vaccine licensed for use in the country and is expected…

  • Top Spanish drugmaker fears disruption if EMA moves from Britain

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    By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – The likely relocation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London threatens to disrupt the approval of new drugs and is a medium and long-term worry for top Spanish drugmaker Almirall, its chief executive said on Monday. The EMA, Europe's equivalent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approves medicines…

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    By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – The likely relocation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London threatens to disrupt the approval of new drugs and is a medium and long-term worry for top Spanish drugmaker Almirall, its chief executive said on Monday. The EMA, Europe's equivalent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approves medicines…

  • Finding A Cure Wouldn’t Mean We’ve Defeated Cancer

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    WebMD wasn't a research option when Ivy Brown was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1974, so her mother looked up her 12-year-old daughter's condition the old-fashioned way, in a hardcover medical volume.”It just said 'fatal,'” Brown explained. Having moved the family to London a month earlier, Brown's parents were still trying to liaise…

  • New Zika diagnostics needed for babies, researchers say

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    Some infants with brain abnormalities may not be diagnosed because they have normal-sized heads instead of the tell-tale small skulls of those born with Zika-linked microcephaly, said one of the papers published by The Lancet. This meant that “newborns infected with the virus late in pregnancy may go unreported due to their head size being…

  • University graduates face higher brain tumour risk: study

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    People with at least three years of higher education are at greater risk for cancerous brain tumours than those with no more than nine years of schooling, perplexed researchers said Tuesday. “There is a 19 percent increased risk that university-educated men could be diagnosed with glioma,” said Amal Khanolkar, a scientist at the Institute of…

  • ‘Body shaming’ ads banned from London transport

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    Adverts that are likely to cause people to have “body confidence issues” will be banned from London's public transport network from next month, mayor Sadiq Khan announced on Monday. The new rules will apply to the estimated 12,000 adverts that appear each year on the network run by Transport for London (TfL), a local government…

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    Adverts that are likely to cause people to have “body confidence issues” will be banned from London's public transport network from next month, mayor Sadiq Khan announced on Monday. The new rules will apply to the estimated 12,000 adverts that appear each year on the network run by Transport for London (TfL), a local government…