Pregnant women are more susceptible to life-threatening complications if they get the flu, a fact that makes the results of a new survey showing that only half of pregnant women get vaccinated so troubling. It’s recommended that all women who are, or might become, pregnant during flu season be vaccinated […]
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU executive said on Friday that it had asked Czech authorities to clarify a decision to ask states to test exports to the country for African swine fever. “We’ve been in touch on this issue,” a spokeswoman said, adding that the European Commission had asked the […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biotechnology industry has raised a bumper 1.56 billion pounds ($2.05 billion) in the first eight months of this year, surpassing the 1.2 billion reached in the whole of 2017, despite anxiety in the sector about the fallout from Brexit. The increase has been fueled by recent […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co on Thursday said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its migraine drug Emgality, marking the third approval from a promising new class of treatments for the often debilitating headaches. Lilly said it plans to sell the drug, known chemically as galcanezumab, […]
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a pair of patent infringement lawsuits by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd that sought to block Eli Lilly and Co from bringing its migraine drug Emgality to market in the United States. FILE PHOTO: The logo and ticker for Eli Lilly and […]
Denver officials have removed large outdoor storage containers set up last year for homeless people after discovering that people were living inside them. The city paid $30,000 for 10 4-by-6-foot (1-by-2-meter) containers meant to give homeless people a safe place to store clothing and other possessions. But the city decided […]
(Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said on Thursday that its once-daily oral drug to treat a rare form of lung cancer received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FILE PHOTO – The Pfizer logo is seen at their world headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew […]
The average American child spends 3.6 hours staring at a computer, television, tablet, or smartphone daily — an amount of screen time associated with inferior cognitive development and academic performance, according to a new study of over 4,500 children between the ages of eight and 11 published yesterday in The […]