Online tool reduces inappropriate medical tests
By Trevor Stokes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A web-based decision-making tool that alerts heart doctors when diagnostic tests would ...
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Marijuana tied to better blood sugar control
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had used marijuana in the past month had smaller waists and lower levels o...
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Labs reject dramatic findings on cancer drug in Alzheimer's mice
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists say a dramatic result last year suggesting that a cancer drug already appro...
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WHO warns countries not to hoard secrets of coronavirus
By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of th...
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New advice didn't change breast screening rates
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women in their 40s didn't cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a gover...
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Schools should make exercise 'core' subject, U.S. panel urges
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical as ...
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Novo Nordisk says obesity drug trial confirms weight loss
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said Phase III study results had shown people t...
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BTG says interventional medicine buys could boost sales to $1 bln
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British pharmaceutical company BTG announced two deals on Thursday that it said could create an in...
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New J&J anti-depressant related to 'Special K' party drug
By Ransdell Pierson NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017...
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Saudi Arabia confirms another death from SARS-like virus
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the SARS-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim regi...
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