Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Biden to invoke Cold War-era law to boost medical supplies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will invoke a Cold War-era measure to boost investment in U.S. manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies that he has deemed important for national defe...
Nov 27, 2023
China’s respiratory illness surge not as high as pre-pandemic- WHO official
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently going through is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health Organisation official said...
Nov 27, 2023
GSK says blood cancer drug meets primary goal in late-stage trial
(Reuters) -British drugmaker GSK said on Monday its blood cancer drug Blenrep, when used as a second-line treatment in patients with myeloma, met its primary goal of progression-free survival in a lat...
Nov 27, 2023
Sanofi looks to widen Dupixent use to treat ‘smoker’s lung’ after second trial win
(Reuters) - Sanofi plans to file for U.S. approval of wider use of its anti-inflammatory drug Dupixent against "smoker's lung", also known as COPD, after a second large trial showed significant benefi...
Nov 27, 2023
Valneva says EU regulator accepts its chikungunya vaccine application
(Reuters) - French drugmaker Valneva said on Monday that the application for its vaccine candidate against mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya was accepted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...
Nov 27, 2023
Indian drug manufacturers benefit from Big Pharma interest beyond China
By Maggie Fick, Andrew Silver and Rishika Sadam LONDON/SHANGHAI/HYDERABAD (Reuters) - Drugmakers are seeking to limit their reliance on Chinese contractors who produce drugs used in clinical trials an...
Nov 26, 2023
China ministry seeks more fever clinics to combat respiratory illness surge
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's health ministry on Sunday urged local authorities to increase the number of fever clinics as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses in its first full wi...
Nov 26, 2023
Japan detects season’s first bird flu case, to cull 40,000 birds – NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan detected the first case of highly pathogenic H5-type bird flu this season at a poultry farm in the south of the country, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday. The local ...
Nov 25, 2023
Almost 400,000 deaths in Europe in 2021 attributable to filthy air -EU report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Almost 400,000 deaths in Europe in 2021 were related to three main air pollutants and some could have been avoided if pollutants had been reduced to World Health Organisation-reco...
Nov 24, 2023
Zimbabwe restricts gatherings, food vending as cholera cases spike
By Nyasha Chingono HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has started restricting public gatherings and food vending, while monitoring burials in all areas affected by cholera, after cases of the di...
Nov 24, 2023
