* Quest sees 2012 rev growth of 1-2 pct vs prior view of 2-2.5 pct
* Quest maintains 2012 EPS view
* LabCorp narrows 2012 revenue view
(Reuters) - The top two labora...
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2012-07-19 |
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(Reuters) - The top two laboratory testing providers, Quest Diagnostics Inc and Laboratory Corp of America Holdings, lowered their revenue forecasts for the year as patients go in...
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2012-07-19 |
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(Reuters) - AstraZeneca is to conduct a new global clinical trial of key new heart drug Brilinta involving 11,500 patients with peripheral artery disease, Britain's second biggest drugm...
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2012-07-18 |
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(Reuters) - Four Alzheimer's patients treated with an immune system therapy have seen their disease stabilize for at least three years, raising hope that the drug from Baxter Internation...
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2012-07-18 |
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(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc is to acquire its long-time partner Human Genome Sciences Inc for a sweetened offer of about $3 billion, ending on friendly terms a three-month hostile p...
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2012-07-17 |
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(Reuters) - Human Genome Sciences Inc has agreed to be acquired by GlaxoSmithKline Plc, subject to approval of some last-minute details, for about $14 a share in cash, two sources familiar wit...
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2012-07-16 |
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(Reuters) - At an ill-fated press conference in 1984, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler boldly predicted an effective AIDS vaccine would be available within just two years. Bu...
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2012-07-16 |
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(Reuters) - Republican governors bent on rejecting the healthcare law's expanded insurance coverage for millions of low-income Americans may see their gambit backfire if their party fails to sweep the...
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2012-07-16 |
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(Reuters) - When Cynthia Craig was diagnosed with postpartum depression eight years ago, she told her family doctor she felt anxious about motherhood. She wondered whether she ...
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2012-07-13 |
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(Reuters Health) - Medical records that patients can access online may encourage more people to get recommended screening tests and immunizations, a new study suggests.
In a clini...
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2012-07-13 |
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(Reuters Health) - One in eight people with the painful condition fibromyalgia self-medicate with pot and other cannabis products, according to a new Canadian study.
"That ...
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2012-07-13 |
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(Reuters) - Melinda Gates has pledged $560 million as part of a campaign to expand access to contraception for women in some of the poorest countries in the world. The funding commitment was unveiled...
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2012-07-12 |
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(Reuters Health) - There's more evidence that the new formulation of OxyContin, the time-release version of oxycodone, is discouraging abuse of the powerful drug. But the reformulation, introduced in ...
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2012-07-12 |
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(Reuters) - A gene that causes the rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease can also carry a mutation that produces the opposite effect, staving off the devastating illness, scientists announced ...
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2012-07-12 |
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(Reuters) - Sorin, Italy's biggest listed biomedical group, has invested $8 million in U.S. medical technology manufacturer Cardiosolutions with an option to acquire the bu...
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2012-07-11 |
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(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn said he had initially tried to avoid a proxy fight against Forest Laboratories Inc and had offered to take at least two seats on the U.S. drugma...
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2012-07-11 |
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(Reuters) - Youth who watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, no matter what the film's rating is, are more likely to start smoking themselves, according to a new...
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2012-07-10 |
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(Business Insider) Angela Zhang is just a teenager who recently graduated from Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA, but she's already on her way to curing cancer.
Zhang won the gr...
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2012-07-10 |
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(Reuters) - Men have a greater number of knee ligament injuries than women, despite research suggesting that women's knees are more prone to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears and surgeries to fi...
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2012-07-09 |
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(Reuters) - When the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Obama's healthcare law under Congress's power to tax, but not its power to regulate the economy, many conservatives were quick to hail ...
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2012-07-09 |
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