Drinking more coffee may reduce risk of developing gallstones, suggests new study in Journal of Internal Medicine (n=104,493). Those who drank more than 6 cups of coffee per day had 23% lower risk of developing symptomatic gallstones, with 1 extra cup of coffee per day linked with 3% lower risk.

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Biogen scraps two late-stage trials for Alzheimer's treatment

Biogen scraps two late-stage trials for Alzheimer's treatment
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Biogen Inc and Eisai Co Ltd are abandoning two late-stage trials for their Alzheimer's treatment in a widely anticipated move that comes months after the companies scrapped trials of another drug for the memory-robbing disease.

Influenza Season Has Barely Begun, But a California Child's Death Is Already Being Classified as 'Flu-Associated'

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Pakistan’s Polio Eradication Program a Failure, says World Health Organization

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E-scooter injuries rising, often involve drugs or alcohol

E-scooter injuries rising, often involve drugs or alcohol
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(Reuters Health) - As the popularity of electric scooters increases, so do injuries sending users to the hospital, a U.S. study suggests.

U.S. FDA flags probable cancer-causing impurity in common heartburn drugs

U.S. FDA flags probable cancer-causing impurity in common heartburn drugs
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that some medicines containing ranitidine, including Sanofi SA's Zantac, had traces of a probable cancer-causing impurity called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) at low levels.

Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions

Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions
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The U.S. Department of Justice examined using fentanyl in lethal injections as it prepared last year to resume executing condemned prisoners, a then untested use of the powerful, addictive opioid that has helped fuel a national crisis of overdose deaths.