 | | | | Capricor Therapeutics Inc said on Wednesday it had put on hold a clinical trial of its drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disorder. | | | | | | Israel's parliament has given its final approval to a long-awaited and controversial law to allow exports of medical cannabis, a move that is likely to boost state coffers. | | | | | | New Jersey health officials have urged more than 3,700 former patients of a surgical facility to get blood tests "out of an abundance of caution," because they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Forcing patients off opioid painkillers could sometimes do more harm than good, international medical experts warn in an open letter to health authorities. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Professional athletes in the National Basketball Association may score fewer points and snag fewer rebounds the day after late-night activity on Twitter, a new study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Doctor moms regularly run up against discrimination, sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant, a new survey finds. | | | | | | China has detected the African swine fever virus in some protein powders made using pork blood and manufactured by a Tianjin-based company, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement on Tuesday. | | | | | | Thailand approved marijuana for medical use and research on Tuesday, the first legalization of the drug in a region with some of the world's strictest drug laws. | | | | | | China's agriculture ministry on Tuesday reported a new outbreak of African swine fever in the city of Huizhou in the southern province of Guangdong, which has killed 11 pigs on a farm of 90 pigs. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - The more people understand about the benefits of exercise, the more time they're likely to spend being physically active, an Australian study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - The quality of care received by patients with head and neck cancers in the U.S. varies widely and is unaffected by the size of the hospital or the volume of patients treated in a year, a study shows. | | | | | |
