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PARIS (Reuters) – French drugmaker Sanofi said on Wednesday that its earnings could drop by up to 15 percent this year as top-selling drugs previously protected by patents are hit by competition from cheap copies. Sanofi expects to return to growt… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares of scandal-hit Olympus Corp jumped more than 7 percent in heavy trade on Monday after the Tokyo bourse kept the company listed, but placed it on its "security on alert" list for firms needing to urgently improve … View full post on Yahoo! Health News

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Early results from a pivotal trial of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental leukemia drug ponatinib show it is effective in nearly half of patients who had stopped responding to currently available drugs. An interim lo… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report that examines state trends in health insurance costs… View full post [...]

[AP] – Life insurer and annuity provider Prudential Financial Inc. said Tuesday that it will pay an annual dividend of $1.45 per share, a 26 percent increase from last year’s $1.15 payout. View full post on Yahoo! Finance: Life Insurance Industry News

[AP] – Reinsurance Group of America Inc. on Monday said that its third-quarter profit jumped 15 percent, helped by higher premiums and a hefty income-tax benefit from its Canadian operations. View full post on Yahoo! Finance: Life Insurance Industry News

A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people’s sexual behavior are taking hold. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

For the third consecutive year, the number of deer-vehicle collisions in the U.S. has dropped, according to Illinois-based State Farm Insurance. And the downturn is accelerating. The percentage decline over the last year is nearly three times as large as … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study. View full post on Yahoo! Health News