Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Amgen’s Lumakras combination data held for August lung cancer meeting
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Trial data on Amgen Inc's Lumakras will be released later on Tuesday by the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), but meeting organizers decided to hold until Aug. 7 res...
Jul 12, 2022
U.S. climate envoy: Europe’s return to coal should be temporary
By Marek Strzelecki and Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) - Moscow's war in Ukraine must not sideline European Union efforts to cut carbon emissions even as the continent is forced to turn back to coal ...
Jul 12, 2022
U.S. deaths from antibiotic resistant ‘superbugs’ rose 15% in 2020
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - U.S. deaths from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, also known as 'superbugs', jumped 15% in 2020 as the drugs were widely dispensed to treat COVID-19 and fight off bacteri...
Jul 12, 2022
France to cut nitrites in food after agency confirms cancer risk
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it intends to cut the use of nitrites in food after the national health agency confirmed they raise the risk of cancer, falling short of a full ban feared by p...
Jul 12, 2022
U.S. CDC director: BA.5 estimated to represent 65% of circulating COVID-19 variants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fast-spreading BA.5 sub-lineage of Omicron is estimated to make up 65% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of last week, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Jul 12, 2022
Iberian Peninsula swelters in heatwave, wildfire risk grows
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) - Soaring temperatures in Portugal have forced authorities to place more than half of the country on "red alert" on Tuesday and deploy hundreds o...
Jul 12, 2022
San Francisco reaches $54 million opioid settlement with Teva and Allergan
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Inc and AbbVie's Allergan business unit reached a $58 million opioid settlement with the city of San Francisco over claims that they fuele...
Jul 12, 2022
WHO says COVID-19 remains a global health emergency
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly 2-1/2 years after it was first declared. The Emergency Committee, made up of independe...
Jul 12, 2022
White House to prioritize vaccine boosters, testing to combat Omicron subvariant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Tuesday it will ensure Americans continue to have easy access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and testing to contain the fast-spreading Omicron BA.5 suba...
Jul 12, 2022
Texas avoids blackouts, power use to break more records in heat wave
(Reuters) - Power demand in Texas will likely hit new record highs this week as consumers crank up air conditioners to escape a lingering heat wave after homes and businesses helped avoid rotating bla...
Jul 12, 2022
