Sugary drinks tied to kidney stone risk
By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who drink at least one sugar-sweetened drink a day are slightly more likely to dev...
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More patients than docs report skin surgery problems
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one quarter of people being treated for non-melanoma skin cancer in their d...
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Thrifty Merrimack developing new cancer drugs at lower cost
By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) - Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipe...
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Montreal tells 1.3 million residents to boil their drinking water
(Reuters) - Montreal, Canada's second-largest city, has asked 1.3 million people to boil their drinking water after a problem at one...
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SAP looks to recruit people with autism as programmers
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software company SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawi...
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Oncolytics cancer drug meets mid-stage trial goal, shares rise
(Reuters) - Oncolytics Biotech Inc said preliminary data from a mid-stage trial showed that its cancer drug, Reolysin, met the main ...
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Swiss billionaires buy Merck Serono HQ for biotech campus
By Caroline Copley ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli has bought back the Geneva headquarters of his former bio...
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When it comes to deadly viruses, what's in a name?
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - For a pathogen with such a short history, the mysterious new vi...
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Pfizer to spin off Zoetis stake to shareholders
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis Inc to shareholders by...
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U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for new antibiotics
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has signed an antibiotics development deal worth up to $200 million with Gla...
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