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By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who had used marijuana in the past month had smaller waists and lower levels of insulin resistance than those who never tried the drug, in a new study. The findings, based on surveys and blood tests of about 4,700 U.S. adults, aren’t enough...
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women in their 40s didn’t cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a government-backed panel said annual breast cancer screening should be optional for them, a new study shows. Researchers found that the odds of U.S. women between the...
By Ransdell Pierson NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a new type of treatment for patients with depression that have failed to benefit from standard medications. The intranasal drug, called esketamine, is...