Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Pfizer drops plan to study twice-daily obesity pill in late-stage studies
(Reuters) - Pfizer said on Friday it would not advance a twice-daily version of oral weight-loss drug danuglipron into late-stage studies after most patients in a mid-stage trial dropped out with high...
Dec 01, 2023
UK’s data regulator resists call to investigate China’s BGI over genomic concerns
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's data regulator has resisted calls from lawmakers to investigate the prenatal tests of a Chinese gene company over how it handles the genomic data of cons...
Dec 01, 2023
Abu Dhabi healthcare platform seeks to raise 3.62 billion dirhams from IPO
By Hadeel Al Sayegh DUBAI (Reuters) -Abu Dhabi's PureHealth Holding, owned by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ and one of the capital's biggest conglomerates, on Friday said it plans to raise 3.62 ...
Dec 01, 2023
More than 11,000 turkeys culled after bird flu found on German farm
HAMBURG (Reuters) - About 11,500 Turkeys have been culled after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in east Germany, German authorities said on Friday. The disease was confirm...
Dec 01, 2023
Explainer-What do we know about China’s respiratory illness surge?
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A request by the World Health Organization for more information on a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children in China has attracted g...
Dec 01, 2023
COVID-19 shrinks life expectancy in S.Korea for first time since 1970
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, after life expectancy fell i...
Dec 01, 2023
S.Africa’s Quantum Foods swings to loss on bird flu, power cuts
(Reuters) - South African poultry producer Quantum Foods on Friday reported a 35 million rand ($1.86 million) loss in the year to end-September, after the country's worst bird flu outbreak decimated i...
Dec 01, 2023
AstraZeneca to scrap two trials on drug that curbs potassium
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca on Friday said it would discontinue two late-stage trials looking at the potential benefits of its drug Lokelma in the management of hyperkalaemia across the cardiorenal spectr...
Dec 01, 2023
Explainer-Why prior mega health insurer deals like the possible Cigna/Humana merger failed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health insurers Cigna and Humana are in talks to merge, a potential deal likely to face aggressive scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) if antitrust history with...
Nov 30, 2023
Pfizer is sued by Texas over COVID vaccine claims
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. In ...
Nov 30, 2023
