Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Novo Nordisk says diabetes drugs shortages will persist through 2024
By Ludwig Burger and Eva Mathews (Reuters) - Shortages of Novo Nordisk's diabetes drugs Ozempic and Victoza will deteriorate in the fourth quarter of 2023 and persist throughout 2024, the Danish compa...
Nov 21, 2023
UK’s NHS hands U.S.-based Palantir contract for patient data software
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) awarded a contract to a group of companies led by U.S.-based Palantir Technologies, to develop new software to handle patient data,...
Nov 21, 2023
Medical device maker Medtronic raises fiscal 2024 profit view
(Reuters) - Medtronic on Tuesday raised its annual profit forecast for the second time this year, banking on higher demand for its medical devices as surgery volumes pick up pace. It now expects profi...
Nov 21, 2023
BeiGene agrees to acquire Ensem Therapeutics’ cancer therapy
(Reuters) - BeiGene said on Tuesday it has entered into an agreement with biotech company Ensem Therapeutics to acquire a global license for a cancer therapy that is ready to enter early-stage trial. ...
Nov 21, 2023
Croatia reports bird flu outbreak on poultry farm
PARIS (Reuters) - Croatia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The outbreak infecte...
Nov 21, 2023
BioNTech says European Patent Office has declared Moderna patent invalid
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said on Tuesday the European Patent Office has declared as invalid an mRNA patent that has been invoked by Moderna in litigation about alleged an ...
Nov 21, 2023
Indian researchers find no link between sudden death and COVID shots
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian researchers found no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination was behind "unexplained sudden deaths", a medical organisation said on Tuesday, instead pointing to the disease its...
Nov 21, 2023
Texas AG sues Pfizer over quality-control lapses in kids’ ADHD drug
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer and its supplier Tris Pharma of providing children's ADHD medicine that it knew might be ineffective to the state's Medi...
Nov 20, 2023
FDA warns against using Cardinal’s syringes
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday warned healthcare providers and facilities not to use Cardinal Health's Monoject syringes with patient-controlled pain management pumps and s...
Nov 20, 2023
Drugmakers agree with UK govt on renewed revenue claw-back scheme
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) -The pharmaceutical industry has agreed terms with the British government to renew a medicines access scheme that requires drugmakers to pay part of their drug revenue to th...
Nov 20, 2023
