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A panel of experts on Tuesday urged US regulators to allow an over-the-counter version of a test that could allow people to test themselves at home for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of temporary visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year politics. Senator John Cornyn, the senior Republican on...(more)
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DENVER (Reuters) - A small Catholic college in Ohio said Tuesday it was dropping health insurance coverage for students rather than comply with a federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control. The Franciscan University of Steubenville "will not participate in a plan that requires...(more)
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(Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc said it won European approval to begin selling a device that lowers blood pressure by creating tiny scars along the renal nerves, joining a growing number of medical technology companies developing hypertension treatments. The St Jude device, called the EnligHTN...(more)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study finds. Researchers found that more than one-third of young adults with an autism...(more)
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(Reuters) - Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health Inc will suspend shipments of controlled substances from a Florida warehouse for two years under a settlement of federal litigation stemming from a major crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse. Under the agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Cardinal said...(more)
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A clinical trial of Crenezumab, made by Genentech, will focus largely on people in a large Colombian family who are genetically destined to suffer from the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's Genentech unit has won the right to try its experimental Alzheimer's drug crenezumab on people with no signs of dementia - the first such trial to gauge whether early intervention can help prevent or slow the disease.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts, health experts said on Tuesday. While existing prevention measures such as mosquito nets treated with insecticide and indoor spraying are still...(more)
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted a fast track designation to Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental hepatitis C drug ACH-3102, currently in an early-stage trial. The fast-track status is designed to expedite the regulatory review of drugs that aim to treat serious diseases and...(more)
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US First Lady Michelle Obama is teaming up with the US Olympic Committee to introduce more than 1.7 million children to an array of sports as part of her "Let's Move!" youth fitness campaign.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government launched an ambitious push to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's on Tuesday with a first prevention study of high-risk patients and tests on an insulin nasal spray that has shown promise in earlier studies. The trials, funded by grants of...(more)
