Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc uses an artificial intelligence algorithm that systematically denies elderly patients' claims for extended care such as nursing facility stays, ac...
Nov 14, 2023
US drops antitrust case over healthcare hiring agreements
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has asked a judge to dismiss the government's prosecution of a UnitedHealth Group affiliate accused of unlawfully restricting employee mobilit...
Nov 14, 2023
Pfizer to cut 500 jobs at UK site as part of wider cost cuts
(Reuters) -Pfizer will cut 500 jobs at its Sandwich, Kent site in the U.K. as part of its $3.5 billion cost-cutting plan, the drugmaker said on Tuesday. The U.S. drugmaker announced the cost-cutting p...
Nov 14, 2023
Belgium bans use of Ozempic for weight loss until summer
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium has decided to temporarily ban the use of Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Ozempic as a weight loss treatment amid a shortage of the medicine, according to a...
Nov 14, 2023
Catalent delays quarterly filing with SEC on $700 million impairment charge
(Reuters) - Catalent will delay its quarterly filing with the U.S. securities regulator due to a goodwill impairment charge of about $700 million related to acquisitions in the company's consumer heal...
Nov 14, 2023
Add chickenpox vaccine to UK child immunisation programme -vaccine advisors
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain should add the chickenpox vaccine to its routine childhood immunisation programme, the government's vaccine advisory body said on Tuesday. The recommendation would bring the ...
Nov 14, 2023
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi plus chemoradiotherapy fail main goal in late stage trial
(Reuters) - Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Tuesday its cancer drug Imfinzi administered with chemoradiotherapy failed to meet its main goal in a late-stage trial to treat unresectable, Stage 3 non-smal...
Nov 14, 2023
Healthcare execs expect M&A activity to rise again in 2024 -survey
By Andres Gonzalez LONDON (Reuters) - Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the global healthcare sector should continue to rise next year, led by healthcare companies rather than private equity, a...
Nov 14, 2023
Accord Healthcare resumes production of cancer drug cisplatin amid shortages
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Monday that Accord Healthcare has resumed manufacturing of commonly used cancer drug cisplatin against the backdrop of ongoing drug shor...
Nov 13, 2023
Rising temperatures, longer monsoon drive Bangladesh’s worst dengue outbreak
By Ruma Paul and Sam Jahan DHAKA (Reuters) - Rising temperatures and a longer monsoon in Bangladesh because of climate change are providing ideal breeding conditions for the dengue-spreading mosquito,...
Nov 13, 2023
