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China Lifts Tariffs on Some U.S. Goods in Modest Olive Branch to Trump

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019ALEXANDRA STEVENSONComments Off on China Lifts Tariffs on Some U.S. Goods in Modest Olive Branch to Trump

The American imports spared by Beijing include lubricants, pesticides and cancer drugs but not the major agricultural products that Washington considers crucial to making a trade deal.

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Lasker Awards Honor Advances in Modern Immunology

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019Knvul SheikhComments Off on Lasker Awards Honor Advances in Modern Immunology

The prizes recognized the discoverers of B and T lymphocytes, pioneers in genetic engineering to fight breast cancer, and a nonprofit that helps get vaccines to the world’s poorest children.

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Babies Display ‘Werewolf Syndrome’ After Getting Anti-Baldness Drug by Mistake

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019RAPHAEL MINDERComments Off on Babies Display ‘Werewolf Syndrome’ After Getting Anti-Baldness Drug by Mistake

At least 17 children, including babies, began growing hair all over their bodies after a hair loss treatment was mislabeled as heartburn medicine.

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China Eases Rules on Cheap Drug Imports to Fight Chronic Diseases

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019SUI-LEE WEEComments Off on China Eases Rules on Cheap Drug Imports to Fight Chronic Diseases

The revised law would reduce penalties for buying generic pharmaceuticals from other countries without waiting for approval, though details are scant.

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This Daily Pill Cut Heart Attacks by Half. Why Isn’t Everyone Getting It?

August 22, 2019August 23, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on This Daily Pill Cut Heart Attacks by Half. Why Isn’t Everyone Getting It?

“Polypills” of generic drugs may dramatically reduce heart attacks and strokes in poor countries, a new study suggests. Some experts still aren’t enthusiastic.

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Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

August 14, 2019August 15, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

Once, a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant TB meant quick death. A three-drug regimen cures most patients in just months.

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Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

August 6, 2019August 7, 2019Roni Caryn RabinComments Off on Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market.

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Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring Them

June 24, 2019June 25, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring Them

The pharmaceutical industry once sued to keep AIDS drugs from dying Africans. Now companies boast of their efforts to get medicines to the developing world.

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Global Health: Gilead Will Donate Truvada to U.S. for H.I.V. Prevention

May 9, 2019May 10, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: Gilead Will Donate Truvada to U.S. for H.I.V. Prevention

The manufacturer will provide enough of the drug to supply 200,000 patients annually for more than a decade. Critics said it would not be enough to end the AIDS epidemic and questioned the company’s motives.

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Shrimp From 5 U.K. Rivers Have One Thing in Common: Cocaine

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019PALKO KARASZComments Off on Shrimp From 5 U.K. Rivers Have One Thing in Common: Cocaine

A new study of chemicals in river wildlife found pesticides in many of its samples, and cocaine in all of them. The drug’s source remained a mystery.

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