CHICAGO (Reuters) – NATO leaders charting a path out of Afghanistan sought on Sunday to dispel fears of a rush for the exits in the unpopular war even as France’s new president vowed to stick by his pledge to withdraw French troops by year’s end.
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(Reuters) – All baby boomers should be tested at least once for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, according to proposed guidelines from U.S. health officials released on Friday.
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(Reuters) – A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection was in critical condition at Augusta Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s top health official on Friday took the debate over whether healthcare coverage should include contraceptives to the campus of a Catholic university that has been deeply divided over the administration’s policy.
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates urged its citizens to stay away from Lebanon on Saturday, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighbouring Syria has unsettled areas near a northern port.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotics are still better than probiotics at preventing urinary tract infections, but at least “good bacteria” don’t add to a person’s antibiotic resistance, a new study concludes.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police arrested a British citizen on Friday after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in a black magic ritual were found stuffed into travel bags in a Bangkok hotel room.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Osiris Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday that Canadian health regulators have approved its treatment for acute graft-versus host disease in children, making it the first stem cell drug to be approved for a systemic disease anywhere in the world.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – If you wanted to admire masterpieces of religious art by Titian, Raphael, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Carlo Crivelli and other masters in museums around Italy’s central Marche region, it could cost you a few weeks of time and a hefty hotel bill.
(Reuters) – Two drugs being developed by GlaxoSmithKline Plc – each designed to block different pathways used by cancer cells – have been shown in a small clinical trial to curb melanoma with fewer side effects than current therapies.
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will hold a repeat election on June 17, a source from the Democratic Left party said after party leaders met on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s drug watchdog has reversed a controversial decision not to fund a new prostate cancer pill that was developed in the country after maker Johnson & Johnson agreed a new discount on supplies to the UK state healthcare service.
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes his place in next week’s presidential election.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Health regulators said on Monday they could not definitively link Novartis AG’s multiple sclerosis pill Gilenya with the deaths of people who took the drug.
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AMMAN (Reuters) – Rebels killed 23 Syrian soldiers on Monday, according to a rights group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, in battles around the town of Rastan that further undermined a sagging U.N.-backed ceasefire.
KABUL (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing another blow to the country’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s president met party leaders on Sunday in a final bid to cobble together a coalition and avert a repeat election, but the veteran politician’s effort looked set to fail because of deep splits over an EU/IMF rescue plan.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Up to half of teens and young women who give birth are pregnant again within a year — but a new study suggests giving new moms a contraceptive implant before they leave the hospital the first time around can help prevent those repeat pregnancies.
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek politicians were set to abandon their quest to form a government on Saturday, leaving the president with one final chance to avert new elections that could drive Greece out of the European single currency.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts on Friday recommended the use of Gilead Sciences Inc’s Quad pill for untreated HIV patients.
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KABUL (Reuters) – After five years of rising deaths, civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped 20 percent in the first four months of the year, the United Nations said, a rare piece of good news as foreign combat forces prepare to pull out by the end of 2014.
CARACAS (Reuters) – On a heady night in mid-February, Henrique Capriles roared himself hoarse with optimism at his victory rally in Caracas after trouncing rivals to win the Venezuelan opposition’s presidential ticket.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected calls from her centre-left opponents in Germany and Europe for economic stimulus policies that rely on new debt, warning parliament on Thursday that “growth on credit” would just tip Europe deeper into crisis.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After years of “evolving” on the issue, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters.
VIENNA (Reuters) – A U.S. security institute says commercial satellite imagery shows new activity at an Iranian military site which raises concern that the Islamic state may be “washing” a building the United Nations’ nuclear agency wants to inspect.