Health news from leading news agencies
Reuters
- Michigan judge blocks flavored vape ban as Juul faces wrongful death lawsuit
- Missouri appeals court overturns $110 million Johnson & Johnson talc verdict
- Weight-loss surgery tied to lower risk of birth defects
- Three drug distributors in talks to settle opioid litigation for $18 billion - WSJ
- Parents in medical research labs missing out on government help with conference travel
- Mexican Senate set to pass bill to legalize marijuana in next few days
- Scientists find how deadly malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans
- Fewer emergency surgeries, more deaths in British hospitals vs U.S.
- China reports new African swine fever outbreak in Guangxi region
- Different minds: Temple Grandin on nurturing autistic workers
Foxnews
- Michigan teen declared brain-dead after asthma attack, taken off life support
- Boy, 11, with terminal brain cancer asks for 'patches and prayers' from military, law enforcement, fire communities
- Arizona teen in ICU with vape illness, mom feels like 'total failure'
- Girl, 4, bullied for birthmark on face hopes to have 'lump' removed; people 'point and laugh,' mom says
- Stressed-out pregnant women may be less likely to have a baby of a certain sex, study finds
- Does breast cancer awareness month trivialize the disease?
- Pennsylvania police warn of Halloween candy laced with THC
- CDC gives vaping-related lung illnesses a name
- Veteran gets groundbreaking penis transplant after Afghanistan blast injuries
- Is red meat safe to eat or not? Food advice is confusing Americans
BBC
- How dad saved son from 'scalding cuppa' scars
- NHS screening 'needs to fit with busy lives'
- The world's first artificial womb for humans
- Deadly parasite 'jumped' from gorilla to humans
- Questions remain over puberty-blockers, as review clears study
- Sharp rise in babies facing being taken into care
- Bill Turnbull backs cannabis for medicinal use ahead of cancer doc
- Vaping: 'I'm 17, and rarely ID'd for e-cigs'
- More than half of A&Es 'not good enough'
- Spikes - and other ways disabled people combat unwanted touching