CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp on Monday said it was suspending all sales of its implantable heart defibrillators after it failed to notify regulators of changes in how it manufactures the devices. Its shares fell 14.4 percent to $6.66 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company said it has voluntarily stopped shipment and was ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The identities of more than 200 British and Australian soldiers buried in several mass graves in northern France during World War One are expected to be revealed this week. A joint British/Australian Identification Board has been considering evidence in the last two weeks in an effort to identify 250 bodies found in Pheasant Wood, in Fromelles ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening all pregnant women for a rare but fatal genetic disease is too expensive, researchers say in a new report that adds to a recent controversy about whether genetic tests are worth the cost. Babies with the severe form of the disease -- known as spinal muscular atrophy or SMA -- become too weak to breathe effectively within ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed Monday. Carbon dioxide, measured at Norway's Zeppelin station on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, rose to a median 393.71 parts per million of the atmosphere in the first ...