LONDON (Reuters) – Pollution is killing millions of people worldwide, mostly through the diseases it causes including heart conditions, strokes and lung cancer, according to a large international study. Almost all pollution-related deaths – around 92 percent – are in poor or middle-income countries, the research found. And in rapidly industrializing countries such as India, […]
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(Reuters) – Celgene Corp said it would abandon testing a drug to treat Crohn’s disease, in a major setback to the U.S. biotechnology company’s pipeline amid attempts to lower dependence on its mainstay Revilimid. The company’s shares fell 6.4 percent to $136.96 in extended trading on Thursday. Celgene said it would stop two trials of […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Insurers could pay $275 million to cover the insured portion of drugmaker Merck & Co’s loss from a cyber attack in June, according to a forecast by Verisk Analytics Inc’s Property Claim Services (PCS) unit. Merck, however, has not disclosed the magnitude of its uninsured losses from the “NotPetya” attack, which […]
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By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Americans have grown to appreciate beauty across more skin types and ages during the past three decades, if People magazine is any indication, a new study suggests. The magazine is including more nonwhite celebrities and older individuals on its Most Beautiful People list these days, researchers wrote in the […]
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By Tim Reid and Yasmeen Abutaleb PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Tom Westerman voted for Donald Trump in last year’s election but says he might not do so again after the president cut off billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to health insurance companies. “It really upset me,” said Westerman, 63, a self-described “middle-class guy” with an […]
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Lab experiments on a new strain of the H7N9 bird flu circulating in China suggest the virus can transmit easily among animals and can cause lethal disease, raising alarm that the virus has the potential to trigger a global human pandemic, researchers reported on Thursday. The H7N9 virus has […]
Read More By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older women on a so-called Paleolithic diet – which tries to mimic the diet of cavemen living in the stone age – may be more likely to develop iodine deficiency than their counterparts who don’t eat this way, a small Swedish experiment suggests. The Paleo diet is rich in […]
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate that were at odds with its final conclusion that the chemical probably causes cancer. Documents seen by Reuters show how a draft of a key section of the International […]
Read More By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Patients may have better survival odds with female surgeons than with male surgeons, a recent Canadian study suggests. Researchers examined data on 104,630 patients who underwent a variety of common procedures with a total of 3,314 different surgeons, including 774 females and 2,540 males. Overall, patients treated by female […]
Read More By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – African-American women have worse breast cancer survival than white women in the U.S., and a new study suggests that is largely because black women are less likely to have health insurance. About 23 percent of black women diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004-2013 had either no health insurance or […]
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By Natalia Zinets and Matthias Williams KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian lawmakers voted through a long-delayed overhaul of the health system on Thursday that the state’s Western backers say will raise standards and tackle a culture of bribe-taking in surgeries and hospitals. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have been pressing for faster reform […]
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TORONTO (Reuters) – The death of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, a music superstar beloved for songs about culture, small towns and hockey, triggered an outpouring of tributes and grief across Canada on Wednesday. Downie, 53, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2015, died on Tuesday night surrounded by his family, according to […]
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