 | | | | China reported an outbreak of deadly African swine fever on a huge pig farm part-owned by a Danish investment fund, showing the spread of the virus to modern industrial farms expected to have the best levels of disease prevention. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Female soldiers on active duty may struggle to get contraception, a small U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Adults who skip recommended cancer screenings may be more likely than those who don't skip them to die prematurely from causes unrelated to malignancies, a U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - College students may be much more likely than others in their age group to develop a rare but potentially fatal type of bacterial infection that can be prevented with vaccination, a U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | Drugmakers kicked off 2019 with price increases in the United States on more than 250 prescription drugs, including the world's top-selling medicine, Humira, although the pace of price hikes was slower than last year. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Older people with heart failure may be able to continue drinking moderately without harming their health, a new study suggests. | | | | | | U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he expects to see a tremendous decrease in drug prices even as drugmakers have taken steps to raise the prices of their medicines starting this month. | | | | | | Scientists have found that a strain of cholera causing an epidemic in Yemen – the worst in recorded history – came from eastern Africa and was probably borne into Yemen by migrants. | | | | | | A U.S. unit of Indian generic drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd will recall 80 lots of medicines containing blood pressure drug valsartan that were found to have a probable cancer-causing impurity, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Older adults are less likely to need to change residences if their homes have certain features, including no stairs, a new study found. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Whole-body cryotherapy - a trendy procedure that exposes the naked body to subzero temperatures - isn't backed by evidence and can be risky, doctors say. | | | | | |
