 | | | | A baby boy weighing just 268 grams (9.45 oz) at birth was sent home after months in a Tokyo hospital, the smallest surviving male baby in the world, Keio University hospital said. | | | | | | A coalition seeking to get ahead of the next pandemic has agreed a $34 million deal with German biotech CureVac to develop vaccine "printing" technology that aims to rapidly produce shots against multiple diseases. | | | | | | China plans to divide its hog industry into five zones in an attempt to halt the spread African swine fever across the world's top pork producer and guarantee supplies. | | | | | | China on Wednesday said it had confirmed a new outbreak of African swine fever in Shaanxi province, as the highly contagious disease spreads through the world's largest hog herd. | | | | | | An experimental drug could offer hope for restoring damaged brain cells in Parkinson's patients, scientists said on Wednesday, although they cautioned that a clinical trial was not able to prove the treatment slowed or halted the neurodegenerative disease. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Adolescents with asthma don't always speak up during doctor visits and often leave with questions, a study suggests. | | | | | | Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled an ambitious proposal on Tuesday to move all Americans into the government's Medicare health insurance program, tapping into public frustration over the rising cost of healthcare that has become a key issue for the party as it seeks to gain control of Congress and the White House in 2020. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Health conditions related to heat are sharply rising and may affect ethnic populations disproportionately, California statistics suggest. | | | | | | U.S. senators called drug pricing practices "morally repugnant" and told drug company executives they do not want to hear them blame others for the high prices, taking an aggressive stance at a Senate hearing on the rising costs of prescription medicines. | | | | | | Republican Senators John Cornyn and Chuck Grassley said on Tuesday that they would support the powerful Senate Judiciary committee if the panel were to examine the patent system under which drug companies protect the exclusivity of their medicines. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Just among U.S. adults with employer insurance, non-surgical hemorrhoid treatment costs at least $770 million annually, suggests a study that concludes this common complaint needs more attention. | | | | | |
