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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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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  Â
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…