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El Nino threatens 11 million children in Africa with hunger, disease: U.N.
Food and water shortages caused by drought and floods are causing malnutrition, which increases children's vulnerability to killer diseases like malaria, diarrhoea, cholera and dengue fever, it said. "The consequences could ripple through generations unless affected
Factbox: Science’s ‘Breakthrough’ prize winners
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The following is a list of winners of the Breakthrough Prizes, worth $3 million each, announced on Sunday in Mountain View, California. Life Sciences: Karl Deisseroth, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Novo Nordisk diabetes drug fails to help heart failure: study
By Bill Berkrot ORLANDO (Reuters) - The Novo Nordisk diabetes drug Victoza failed to improve clinical stability or delay death in patients suffering from advanced heart failure, researchers reported at a medical meeting on Sunday. The injectable
What’s healthier than walking to work? Running to catch the bus
Taking the bus or train to work may be even healthier than walking, according to a new study published Sunday by the American Heart Association. "Bus/train commuters had even lower rates of diabetes, high blood pressure
Suspended FIFA chief Blatter in hospital-lawyer
Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter, his federation mired in a corruption crisis, is in hospital for medical checks but should be discharged soon, his U.S. lawyer said on Friday. Later, however, Blatter's U.S. based lawyer Richard
Sierra Leone girls forced into "degrading" pregnancy tests after school ban
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Schoolgirls in Sierra Leone have been forced to undergo humiliating and degrading public pregnancy tests since the government banned pregnant girls from attending mainstream schools and taking exams, Amnesty
Pfizer doubling patient income limit for free drug program
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — As the furor over soaring U.S. prescription drug prices escalates and outrageous price hikes by several smaller drugmakers give the entire industry a black eye, the biggest U.S.-based drugmaker is expanding financial
Branded drugs help Botox-maker Allergan beat profit estimates
(Reuters) - Allergan Plc, created from the merger of Actavis and Allergan, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on strong sales of high-margin branded drugs, its biggest business. The merger brought signature drugs such as Botox anti-wrinkle treatment
Egyptian flooding drowns Gaza’s tunnel business
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt
Cognizant raises revenue forecast for third time this year
(Reuters) - IT services provider Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp raised its full-year revenue forecast for the third time this year after posting its biggest jump in quarterly revenue in three years. Revenue from the company's healthcare division