By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal prosecutor told jurors on Friday that a Massachusetts pharmacist gambled with patients’ lives by making drugs in unsafe ways that led to a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak, but a defense lawyer said he was no murderer. Glenn Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist at New England Compounding […]
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By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Kidney specialists recommend follow-up care for most patients who have experienced acute kidney injury, but only a minority of patients have been getting that care, according to a Canadian study. “Acute kidney injury refers to a sudden loss of kidney function that usually develops over the course of days […]
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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Drugmaker Merck & Co Inc <MRK.N>, moving to a new sales team structure in the United States, plans to cut 1,800 sales positions, while adding 960 jobs to a new chronic care sales force, the company said on Friday. Three of Merck’s U.S. sales teams will be cut: primary care, […]
Read More By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – Frail older people don’t live as long as their stronger peers, and loss of mental function further increases their risk of death, recent research shows. The good news: Older people can live longer, healthier lives by maintaining their strength and cognitive abilities, Dr. Yunhwan Lee of Ajou University School […]
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(Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the agency was working with several pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Puerto Rico to prevent shortages of medical products in the United States as it joins a massive effort to help rebuild the island that was ravaged by Hurricane Maria. Drugmakers are […]
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By Sarah White PARIS (Reuters) – L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics company wants to see more beauty tech like sensory hair brushes that tell you how to care for your hair, and skin patches that let you know how much sun you are getting. So it said on Friday it was launching a program of […]
Read More By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO’s Africa emergencies director, Ibrahima Soce Fall, told reporters in Geneva the organisation was racing to stop both the Madagascar plague and an outbreak of the […]
Read More By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO’s Africa emergencies director, Ibrahima Soce Fall, told reporters in Geneva the organization was racing to stop both the Madagascar plague and an outbreak of the […]
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Air pollution in New Delhi hit 18 times the healthy limit on Friday under a thick, toxic haze after a night of fireworks to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali – despite a court-ordered ban on their sales. Residents of the sprawling Indian capital, which already ranks among the world’s most […]
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By Sonia Feng SYDNEY (Reuters) – The parliament of Australia’s second largest state passed legislation on Friday to allow terminally ill patients to seek medical help to end their lives, a bill that is expected to act as a catalyst for the rest of the country to adopt similar laws. Any resident of Victoria state […]
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By Manas Mishra and Divya Grover (Reuters) – Shares of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc <IMMY.O> sky-rocketed as much as 91 percent on Thursday, after the company said it would launch a cheaper alternative to Allergan Plc’s <AGN.N> controversial dry eye drug, Restasis, by next month. San Diego-based Imprimis’ therapy will cost 99 cents for a month’s […]
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By Richard Cowan and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior White House aide said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump would demand steps toward repealing Obamacare in any healthcare legislation, comments that cast doubt on the prospects for a short-term bill to shore up insurance markets. Marc Short, the White House’s top liaison […]
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