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Analysis-Hims & Hers GLP-1 pill gambit backfires, accelerating crackdown on drug compounders

By Michael Erman NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Online telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, seeking growth drivers as its original sexual-health franchises matured, may have overstepped with a risky launch of weight-loss pills that drew swift blowback from Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk and ...
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Explainer-Will Bayer’s proposed $7.25 billion Roundup deal bring legal closure?

By Dietrich Knauth and Diana Novak Jones Feb 19 (Reuters) - Bayer's Monsanto unit has proposed a $7.25 billion nationwide class settlement to resolve both current and future lawsuits alleging that its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer, billing it as a long-awaited path toward ending years ...
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Early prenatal care, considered best for moms and babies, is on the decline in the US

Early prenatal care improves the chances of having a healthy pregnancy and baby. But a new federal report shows it's been on the decline. The share of U.S. births to women who began prenatal care in the first trimester dropped from 78.3% in 2021 to ...
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Cereulide found in two baby formula products recalled by Danone, Switzerland says

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Traces of a toxin that can cause nausea and vomiting were found in two types of infant formula recalled by France's Danone earlier this month, Swiss authorities said on Wednesday. Traces of the toxin cereulide were found in "Aptamil Pronutra 1, ...
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Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration

By Jessica Donati Feb 18 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the ...
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US NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Trump administration official said on Wednesday, part of a ...
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Afghanistan faces catastrophic hunger crisis as aid cuts force the WFP to turn away 3 in 4 children

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The toddler cries as an oxygen mask is fitted to his face, its green elastic band stretched across his sunken cheeks. When he was first hospitalized a month ago, the 2 ½-year-old was fighting for his life. Severely malnourished, Abu Bakar ...
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8 backcountry skiers found dead and 1 still missing after California avalanche

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - Crews found the bodies of eight backcountry skiers near California's Lake Tahoe and were searching for one more after they were caught in an avalanche, the nation's deadliest in nearly half a century, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities said the skiers had ...
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NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to take over as acting head of CDC

(WASHINGTON) -- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will take over as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a White House official and sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Bhattacharya will continue in his ...
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NIH’s Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director

WASHINGTON (AP) - National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also temporarily become acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration official said Wednesday. The change was first reported by The New York Times and confirmed by the official, who ...
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Italian toddler deemed too sick for second transplant, doctors say

NAPLES, Feb 18 (Reuters) - An Italian toddler left clinging to life after receiving a damaged donor heart, is not well enough to undergo a second transplant, a panel of specialists ruled on Wednesday, all but ending hopes the boy might survive. The incident ...
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Study finds that dangerous days when weather is prone to fire soaring around the world

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy - ideal to spark extreme wildfires - has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new ...
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