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By Nate Raymond DEDHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) -A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case charging former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesting a 16-year-old boy in 1974, saying the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after psychological experts found he had dementia. McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who was defrocked …

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to three infant formula manufacturers following inspections at their facilities over the last few months. The regulator issued these letters to ByHeart Inc, Reckitt Benckiser Group’s Mead Johnson Nutrition and Perrigo’s Wisconsin unit. At the time of each inspection, the FDA issued observations and …

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By Moira Warburton (Reuters) -Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed. McConnell, 81, was responding to questions from reporters after …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended easing restrictions on marijuana, a department spokesperson said on Wednesday, following a review request from the Biden Administration last year. Nearly 40 U.S. states have legalized marijuana use in some form, but it remains completely illegal in some states and at the federal …

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By Kailyn Rhone (Reuters) – Pediatricians and parents are calling for the U.S. to treat new high-caffeine energy drinks like alcohol and cigarettes and ban their sale to minors as a single serving can contain as much caffeine as six Coca-Colas. Prime Energy, which launched this year, has 200 mg of caffeine within its 350 …

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By Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Tuesday released its list of 10 prescription medicines that will be subject to the first-ever price negotiations by the U.S. Medicare health program that covers 66 million people, with big-selling blood thinner Eliquis from Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer among them. President Joe Biden’s …

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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A special legislative session in Tennessee called by the state’s Republican governor in response to a deadly school shooting ended on Tuesday with no progress on gun safety laws, capped by a brief scuffle between opposing lawmakers. Governor Bill Lee, in the special session which opened on Aug. 21, asked …

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By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) -Walmart is asking some of its 16,000 pharmacists across the U.S. to voluntarily take pay cuts by reducing their working hours in a bid to lower costs, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The cuts, which haven’t been previously reported and are aimed at pharmacists in higher wage …

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