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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt strengthened its ban on female genital cutting on Thursday by eliminating a legal loophole allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons, the health ministry said.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The number of HIV-positive people in India could be nearly two thirds lower than previously estimated, a senior official said on Thursday, as donors and government worked to establish the true figure.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended its food safety standards on Thursday, guaranteeing the quality of its exports and shrugging off concerns of tit-for-tat trade disputes with the United States after seizing two shipments of U.S. fruit.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel voted on Wednesday to set a path for generic drugmakers to seek approval of cheaper, copycat versions of expensive biotechnology medicines.

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's experimental vaccine Cervarix has proved more than 90 percent effective in preventing precancerous lesions due to two types of a virus responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.