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The first drug of its kind was just approved, and it could signal a massive change for pharmaceuticals

The drug contains the same active ingredient as Neupogen, or filgrastim, which logged 2014 worldwid…

Lauren F Friedman,Reuters   


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Now 5 Chicago-area babies have measles

"It is not clear if these cases are linked to the previously confirmed case in suburban Cook County…

Lauren F Friedman,Reuters   


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IBM's Watson can now do in minutes what takes cancer doctors weeks

The other collaborating centers are Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; BC Ca…

Lauren F Friedman,Reuters   


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A widely used flu vaccine isn't working

The company said the CDC data contrasted with its own studies as well as preliminary independent fi…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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UN: This is the drug 'epidemic' that's gripping the US

The shifting landscape of the heroin trade makes it hard to determine exactly where it is coming fr…

Christopher Woody   


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Now we know government joined yet another investigation into Valeant, this time it was about bribery

The settlement resolves claims that SALIX violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and False Clai…

Linette Lopez,Reuters   


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Britain's departure from the EU could mess with the way drugs are approved

Britain's biggest drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline, said the exit vote "creates uncertainty and potential…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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The FDA just approved a revolutionary kind of drug to treat bladder cancer for the first time

The drug, which goes by the name Tecentriq and was developed by Genentech, is a cancer immunotherap…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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An epilepsy treatment that uses a form of marijuana just took a critical step toward approval in the US

The experimental cannabis-based drug has successfully treated children with a rare form of severe e…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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The Ebola Epidemic Is Finally Slowing

The African countries hit hardest by Ebola struggled for months to eradicate the disease because th…

Reuters,Pamela Engel   


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New York's attorney general is investigating whether insurance companies may be unfairly limiting coverage for a costly drug

Gilead Sciences Inc, with its two blockbuster drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi, has dominated the market f…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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Michael Bloomberg just made a huge investment in the kind of treatments credited with making Jimmy Carter cancer-free

Immunotherapy seeks to redirect patients' individual immune systems to target and destroy cancer ce…

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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Massachusetts Patient With Ebola Symptoms Put In Isolation

Reports indicate the patient came in with a headache and other Ebola-like symptoms, including muscl…

Peter Cooney, Reuters   


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Obama Authorizes National Guard To Help Fight Ebola

"The president has laid out very clearly what the mission is. The Department of Defense has told th…

Lauren F Friedman,Reuters   


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The world has entered 'vaccine apartheid,' WHO head says as the US stockpiles shots and nearly a dozen nations have no supply at all

As wealthier countries stockpile vaccines, some poorer nations have yet to receive any doses. "The …

Emma Frage and Michael Shields   


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14 of the most powerful images of 2021 capture a year we'll never forget

Reuters' best images of the year capture important moments in 2021.REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo…

Joey Hadden   


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Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine within the next month as Delta variant spreads

Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday they are developing a booster shot that will specifically target …

Erin Snodgrass,Reuters   


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There's An Easy Way To Stop Eating So Much Fattening Food

The findings were backed up by a "field study" in a real-life grocery store: the later in the day i…

Jennifer Welsh   


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People in China are scrambling to get HIV medication after authorities said it could be used to treat the deadly coronavirus

Health officials in the country have already been administering HIV and flu drugs, separately, to f…

Sahar Esfandiari   


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The Trump administration cut a CDC position in China meant to detect disease outbreaks months before the coronavirus pandemic

The role was discontinued, according to one expert, because US-Chinese politics trumped public heal…

Isaac Scher,Isaac Scher  Â