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Click to View in Browser 02/11/2014 First case of polio discovered in Kabul since 2001 KABUL (Reuters) - A three-year-old girl has been diagnosed with the first case of polio since 2001 in the Afghan capital Kabul, the Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday. Smoking tied to increased risk of common type of breast cancer NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young women who smoke may have an increased risk of a common type of breast cancer, according to a new study. 18 North Carolina patients may have been exposed to rare brain disease WINSTON-SALEM, N.C./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eighteen neurological patients in North Carolina may have been exposed to an incurable and fatal degenerative brain disease while undergoing surgery at the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center because surgical instruments were insufficiently sterilized, the hospital said on Monday. Doctors say health crisis growing in Pakistan's remote northwest ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - By the time Tasneem Bibi brought her four-month-old baby to the clinic, the girl's lower body was blue with cold. Scientists find gene linking brain's grey matter to intelligence LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have found a gene linking intelligence to the thickness of so-called "grey matter" in the brain, and say their discovery could help scientists understand how and why some people have learning difficulties. Mallinckrodt adds pain drug with $1.3 billion Cadence deal (Reuters) - Specialty pharmaceuticals company Mallinckrodt Plc said it would buy pain drug maker Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc for about $1.3 billion to expand in the hospital market, where Cadence's products are widely used. FDA asks for more trials of Sprout's drug for low female libido (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has denied an appeal by Sprout Pharmaceuticals to approve its experimental drug for low female sexual desire but offered a potential pathway to approval, the company said on Tuesday. CVS fourth-quarter sales rise on high prescription volume (Reuters) - CVS Caremark Corp posted higher quarterly profit on Tuesday as it processed more prescriptions and benefited from the introduction of new generic drugs, helping it offset a drop in store visits by customers. Sexually active midlife women continue to have sex NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women who are sexually active when they enter middle age continue to engage sexually as they grow older, even if they were diagnosed with sexual dysfunction, new research shows. Italy's Diasorin launches Rotavirus test MILAN (Reuters) - Italian medical diagnostics group Diasorin said on Tuesday it had launched a test to detect Rotavirus in stool samples in Europe, a market estimated to be worth more than 10 million euros ($13.7 million) a year. Related Video Fifty years later, remembering the Beatles first U.S. concert Snow, ice, rain slam West Coast The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS

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