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Hungarian author Peter Esterhazy, whose widely recognized work in postmodern literature has been translated into 24 languages, is suffering from pancreatic cancer, according to an article in a literary magazine published on Friday. Esterhazy, 65, was not immediately available for comment. Last week he excused himself from the Goteborg Book Fair in Sweden, where he was supposed to appear as a special guest to showcase Hungarian literature, saying in a
The United Nations has been forced to suspend planned humanitarian operations in Syria under a ceasefire agreement due to a surge of military activities, a spokeswoman for U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Friday. Aid activities, including evacuations of wounded, had been planned in Zabadani, a town surrounded by pro-government forces near the Lebanon border, and in rebel-besieged Shi’ite villages in the northwestern province of Idlib (Foua
Amicus Therapeutics Inc said it was unlikely to submit a U.S. marketing application for its lead drug, to treat Fabry disease, by the end of 2015 as expected, after U.S. health regulators asked for a more comprehensive analysis of trial data. Amicus’s stock slumped as much as 59 percent to $5.69, at which point about $956 million had been wiped off the biotechnology company’s market capitalization on Friday. The company
The groom was diagnosed with terminal cancer last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s health care debate has been called an unhealthy political obsession. But if the 2016 presidential hopefuls have any say, it’s about to get bigger.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first combination of two drugs that help the immune system fight cancer, a therapy regimen that could cost $256,000 a year. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said the FDA had given the green light to combine its immuno-oncology drugs Opdivo and Yervoy to treat advanced or inoperable melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, in patients who do not have a mutation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution that’s linked to asthma and respiratory illness — setting a new national ozone standard of 70 parts per billion.
Marijuana sales for recreational use began in Oregon on Thursday as it joined Washington state and Colorado in allowing the sale of a drug that remains illegal under U.S. federal law. Oregon residents 21 years and older can buy up to a quarter-ounce (seven grams) of dried pot at roughly 200 existing medical-use marijuana dispensaries as a new law took effect. About 40 people lined up outside the medical pot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will issue on Thursday stricter curbs on ground-level ozone, the main component of smog, limiting the pollutant to 70 parts per billion, said sources familiar with the decision. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will tighten the national ozone standard from the current level of 75 ppb set under former President George W. Bush in 2008, a level industry groups argued was adequate and that
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Web surfing may not be as big a factor in teenage weight gain as how many excess pounds children are carrying around at the start of adolescence, a Swiss study suggests. “Nowadays Internet use is almost a necessity to survive in this world, as youths are asked to use this technology,” lead study author Yara Barrense-Dias of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
