 | | | | China will adjust its rules on controlling the spread of African swine fever to keep pork supplies stable, said an official on Friday, even as the country reported the first cases of the disease to be discovered in its capital. | | | | | | China's agriculture ministry said on Friday it has confirmed African swine fever on two farms in Beijing, the first cases in the Chinese capital. | | | | | | China's Xiamen airlines said it would stop serving pork on flights from Nov. 24 due to African swine fever outbreaks, CAAC News, a publication run by China's aviation regulator, reported on Friday. | | | | | | China's agriculture ministry said on Friday it has confirmed an African swine fever outbreak in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. | | | | | | Novartis on Friday said it had received European Union approval for its Luxturna gene therapy to restore sight to people with a rare retinal disease. | | | | | | Just weeks after Novartis floated the idea that $4-5 million was fair value for its new gene therapy against a deadly neuromuscular disease, a major benefits manager is pushing back. | | | | | | China's agriculture ministry said on Friday it had confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu in Yangzhou city in eastern Jiangsu province. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Parents who wait to start the crib-to-bed transition until toddlers are 3 years old may find that both they and their children get better sleep, researchers say. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who consume caffeine - whether it's from coffee or tea - have smaller babies than those who abstain from the stimulant during pregnancy, new research suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Patients' satisfaction with surgeon care doesn't seem to be tied to whether or not they have complications after a procedure, a small U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - The age when a girl goes through puberty has long been linked to when her mother started menstruating, and a new study adds to evidence suggesting the same holds true for boys. | | | | | |
