Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Drugmaker Viatris appoints Theodora Mistras as CFO
(Reuters) - Global healthcare company Viatris on Friday appointed Theodora Mistras as its chief financial officer, effective March 1. The company said the current CFO Sanjeev Narula will work closely ...
Dec 15, 2023
Mexico closes cantaloupe plant temporarily amid deadly Salmonella outbreak
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government said Friday it temporarily closed a cantaloupe processing plant while investigating the source of a Salmonella contamination that has killed at least nine p...
Dec 15, 2023
US FDA approves Arcutis’ drug to treat chronic skin disease
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Arcutis Biotherapeutics' drug for treating a skin condition called seborrheic dermatitis in individuals nine years of age and ...
Dec 15, 2023
Bristol Myers to discontinue trials for colorectal cancer treatment
(Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Friday it would discontinue its trial testing a treatment for a type of colon cancer. (Reporting by Christy Santhosh; Editing by Maju Samuel)
Dec 15, 2023
Exclusive-US FDA finds control lapses at Moderna manufacturing plant
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) - U.S. drug regulators in September found quality control lapses at Moderna's main factory including with equipment used to manufacture drug substance for its COVID-19 va...
Dec 15, 2023
US FDA approves Astellas’ combination therapy for bladder cancer
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Astellas Pharma's Padcev in combination with Merck's Keytruda for a type of bladder cancer. In April, FDA had granted accelerated ap...
Dec 15, 2023
EU regulator reiterates guidance to stop GSK’s blood-cancer drug sales
(Reuters) - A committee of the European health regulator on Friday confirmed its initial recommendation to not renew conditional market approval for GSK's Blenrep, citing recent data that did not conf...
Dec 15, 2023
Uptake of new hemophilia gene therapies slow as field assesses options
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - High cost, logistical issues and the prospect of potential treatment advances are holding back adoption of the first gene therapies for hemophilia, experts said this week ...
Dec 15, 2023
Sanofi gets positive EMA opinion for sleeping sickness treatment
(Reuters) - French healthcare company Sanofi on Friday said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had issued a positive opinion of its treatment for sleeping sickness, also called rhodesiense. Sanofi's ...
Dec 15, 2023
Australian regulator kills ACL’s $1 billion bid for rival Healius
By Scott Murdoch (Reuters) -Australia's competition regulator has killed the $1 billion takeover of Healius by rival Australian Clinical Labs in its fourth decision in the past year to block a big tic...
Dec 14, 2023
