| Opioid abuse crisis takes heavy toll on U.S. veterans | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Opioid drug abuse has killed more Americans than the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars combined, and U.S. veterans and advocates this Veteran's Day are focusing on how to help victims of the crisis. |
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| Legionnaires sickens 12 in California, including 9 at Disneyland | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disneyland has shut down and decontaminated two cooling towers following an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that sickened 12 people, nine of them guests or employees at the theme park in Anaheim, county health officials said on Saturday. |
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| Novartis posts eye drug data amid play for Eylea's turf | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis's bid to move in on Bayer's and Regeneron's eye-drug turf was buoyed on Friday by data showing patients on the Swiss drugmaker's new RTH258 drug showed less disease activity than those on its rivals' drug Eylea. |
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| Roche MS drug Ocrevus wins European panel backing | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche on Friday won a key European panel's recommendation for its multiple sclerosis drug Ocrevus, which is on track for nearly $1 billion in sales in 2017 after winning U.S. regulators' go-ahead earlier this year. |
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| Yemen set to run out of fuel and vaccine in a month: UNICEF | | | GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen's stocks of fuel and vaccines will run out in a month unless a Saudi-led military coalition allows aid into the blockaded port of Hodeidah and Sanaa airport, UNICEF's representative in the country said on Friday. |
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| Obesity tied to serious complications after knee injuries | | | (Reuters Health) - Knee dislocations are becoming more common among obese people, and these patients are more likely than normal-weight individuals to develop blood vessel damage that can lead to amputations, a recent study suggests. |
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