Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
WHO board to hold emergency session on Gaza health situation
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization will hold an extraordinary session of its Executive Board on Dec. 10 to discuss health conditions in Gaza and the West Bank, a document fr...
Dec 04, 2023
Eli Lilly extends tender offer to buy Point Biopharma to Dec. 15
(Reuters) - Eli Lilly, on Monday, gave Point Biopharma Global shareholders more time to sell their stock to the drugmaker amid low participation since the offer price was below the current stock price...
Dec 04, 2023
Analysis-As Bayer confronts mounting Roundup losses, all eyes on Philadelphia trial
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - With Bayer facing investor pressure to resolve thousands of lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller after being hit with $2 billion in verdicts in recent weeks, all eyes ar...
Dec 04, 2023
US Supreme Court set to review Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear a challenge by President Joe Biden's administration to the legality of OxyContin maker Purdue Pha...
Dec 04, 2023
India finds quality issues with cough syrup linked to Cameroon deaths – sources
By Shivam Patel BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - Indian tests of a cough syrup linked to the deaths of at least six children in Cameroon have found unidentified quality issues in at least one of the five sam...
Dec 04, 2023
Belgium reports bird flu outbreak on farm near French border
PARIS (Reuters) - Belgium has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a poultry farm in the northwestern part of the country, the World Organisatio...
Dec 04, 2023
South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare to buy Sandoz’s China business
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Aspen Pharmacare will buy the Chinese business of Swiss group Sandoz, including commercialisation rights and intellectual property for some established products and those in th...
Dec 04, 2023
Roche to acquire Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 billion
ZURICH (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical giant Roche said on Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Carmot Therapeutics, a US company based in Berkeley. Roche will pay an upfront purcha...
Dec 04, 2023
Explainer-How will the Supreme Court reshape US opioid epidemic relief?
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear arguments over the legality of a roughly $6 billion bankruptcy settlement involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the po...
Dec 03, 2023
AstraZeneca, AI biologics firm Absci tie up on cancer drug – FT
(Reuters) - Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has signed a deal worth up to $247 million with U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) biologics firm Absci to design an antibody to fight cancer, the Financ...
Dec 03, 2023
