 | | | | China had culled 2,310 hogs in east China's Anhui province as of Sept 2 in response to African swine fever, an agricultural ministry official told state radio on Monday. | | | | | | China reported a new case of African swine fever in Xuancheng in Anhui province on Monday, the second in the city in as many days, raising the risk for farmers as the disease spreads rapidly in the world's top pork producer. | | | | | | A new case of African swine fever has been confirmed in eastern China's Anhui province, said the country's agriculture ministry on Monday, a second outbreak of the disease in Xuancheng city. | | | | | | French drugmaker Sanofi on Monday said it had secured approval in Europe for a rare blood-clotting disorder treatment using nanobodies. | | | | | | China's Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday that 134 hogs had died from African swine fever in Xuancheng city of eastern Anhui province, bringing the total number of outbreaks in China over the past month to six. | | | | | | Brazil federal prosecutors are negotiating with health authority Anvisa and the agriculture ministry to reach a deal that could lift an injunction against the popular weed-killer glyphosate, a prosecutor on the case told Reuters on Friday. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - About one in eight essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries may be fake or contain dangerous mixes of ingredients that put patients' lives at risk, a research review suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - While older women may have a better quality of life and better vision after surgery to remove cataracts, newly reanalyzed data suggest they shouldn't base their decision to have the surgery on whether it will help them live longer. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Smartphone apps that remind heart patients to take their pills could help them stick to prescribed regimens, an Australian study suggests. | | | | | | Bulgaria reported its first outbreak of African swine fever on Friday, with authorities saying seven backyard pigs at a farm close to the Romanian border had been infected with the disease. | | | | | | Efforts to halt an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo appear to be working, but substantial risks remain, the World Health Organization said on Friday. | | | | | |
