Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG says it has halted late-stage development of a new drug for lung cancer and will write off $120 million in the fourth quarter as a result.
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Federal regulators leaned on McDonald's to quickly recall 12 million "Shrek"-themed drinking glasses this spring because they concluded that a typical 6-year-old could be exposed to hazardous levels of the metal cadmium by touching one of the glasses just eight times in a day, according to documents obtained under the federal Freedom of...
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The U.N. says it has sent an emergency team to Nigeria after more than 200 children have died there this year from lead poisoning.
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The global cost of dementia will likely exceed $604 billion this year, or 1 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a new report says.
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Some breast cancer patients may do just as well with a less invasive surgery to remove selected lymph nodes rather than the aggressive operation normally used to remove them all, a new study says.
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