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South Africa seeks price cut for Roche’s Herceptin cancer drug
South Africa is in talks with Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche to reduce the price of its breast cancer drug Herceptin, which currently costs 500,000 rand ($33,000) a year to treat one person and is unaffordable to most women, the health minister said on Tuesday. Africa's most industrialised country has a history of pushing to cut…
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Allergan profit beats estimates, share buybacks planned
The Dublin drugmaker on Tuesday said the planned $40 billion sale of its generics business to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will close next month and that it will use $8 billion of the money to pay down company debt. Since the U.S. government torpedoed the merger, a deal that would have relocated Pfizer's legal domicile to…
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Vaccines put brakes on yellow fever outbreaks, more may pop up: WHO
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A major yellow fever outbreak in Angola and two smaller flare-ups in Uganda and Congo are largely under control but countries have been warned to be vigilant in case the disease pops up elsewhere, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Yellow fever is hard to spot early…
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Cayman Islands to deploy genetically modified mosquitoes
MIAMI (AP) — British biotech company Oxitec and the Cayman Islands government announced plans Thursday to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the fight against a species that spreads Zika and other diseases.
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Cayman Islands to deploy genetically modified mosquitoes
MIAMI (AP) — British biotech company Oxitec and the Cayman Islands government announced plans Thursday to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the fight against a species that spreads Zika and other diseases.
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European court OKs crackdown on e-cigarettes, packaging
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top court dealt a blow to the tobacco industry Wednesday by approving sweeping new rules that will require plain cigarette packs, ban menthol cigarettes and regulate the growing electronic cigarette market.
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Germany relaxes rules on using cannabis for medical purposes
Dried cannabis flowers and cannabis extracts will be available in pharmacies on prescription and the public health system will cover the cost, according to the draft bill that is expected to come into force from spring 2017. Other countries that allow cannabis use for medical purposes include Italy and the Czech Republic. Portugal has decriminalized…
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Study: Football concussions and resuming play vary by age
CHICAGO (AP) — Younger football players are more likely to return to the field less than a day after suffering concussions than those in high school and college, according to a new study.