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Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Celgene arthritis drug appears effective, safe after one year: study Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare 'data hub' Bahrain defends use of teargas following criticism Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists After tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix

Celgene arthritis drug appears effective, safe after one year: study  Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 01:36 PM PDT By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) - Previously untreated patients experienced significant and lasting reductions in signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis when given Celgene Corp's experimental oral drug, apremilast, according to data from a late stage clinical trial. Patients taking either the 20 milligrams or 30 mg dose of apremilast twice a day had a statistically significant improvement in symptoms, such as painful, swollen joints, after 16 weeks of treatment compared with those who received a placebo, researchers said. ... Full Story	Top
Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare 'data hub'  Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:40 PM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, besieged by bad news about the new government health care website, sought on Saturday to highlight a portion of the complex system that she said is working well. The website, designed to let millions of uninsured Americans shop and enroll in health insurance, has been plagued by delays and error messages since it rolled out on October 1, embarrassing President Barack Obama as his administration scrambles to fix the problems. ... Full Story	Top
Bahrain defends use of teargas following criticism  Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 08:21 AM PDT By Mahmoud Habboush DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has defended its use of teargas after rights groups criticized the Gulf kingdom's reported plans to buy 1.6 million canisters of the material. Local and international rights groups have accused the authorities of using teargas excessively and of firing canisters directly at protesters or into cars and houses where they can cause serious injuries. ... Full Story	Top
Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists  Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 07:33 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes with an al Qaeda-linked group which had held the crossing since March. The armed Kurdish group YPG told Reuters fighting carried on through the day and a senior security official on the Iraqi side of the crossing said he could hear gunshots, mortar fire and shelling. ... Full Story	Top
After tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix  Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 03:01 AM PDT By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday that his troubled healthcare website was just weeks away from a cure as he struggled to convince Americans he is on top of what has become a self-inflicted wound to his signature first-term achievement. His administration unveiled a plan on Friday to make Obamacare insurance marketplaces on healthcare.gov - a website riddled with error messages, long delays and bugs - work better by the end of November. It was the end to an embarrassing week where Obama discovered he had overshot on an Oct ... Full Story	Top

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