Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Vietnam develops ‘world’s first’ African swine fever vaccine for commercial use
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam said on Wednesday it had successfully developed a vaccine to administer to pigs to fight African swine fever, with the aim of becoming the first country to commercially produ...
Jun 01, 2022
Sage, Biogen’s drug meets main goal in postpartum depression study
(Reuters) - Sage Therapeutics Inc and Biogen's experimental drug showed improvement in depressive symptoms among women with postpartum depression at day 15, meeting the main goal of a late-stage study...
Jun 01, 2022
Portugal’s monkeypox case tally rises to 119
LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese health authority DGS reported 19 new cases of monkeypox on Wednesday, bringing to 119 the total of confirmed infections in one of the main hot spots of the recent outbrea...
Jun 01, 2022
Strong earthquake hits China’s Sichuan province
BEIJING (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Wednesday, state media reported. The quake struck Lushan county, near the city of Yaan, at 5:00...
Jun 01, 2022
Biden to get supply update from infant formula producers
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday will convene a virtual roundtable with producers of infant formula to get updates on the industry's efforts to ramp up supplies to ...
Jun 01, 2022
Pfizer to exit GSK’s consumer health arm after spin-off
LONDON (Reuters) - Pfizer plans to exit its 32% stake in Haleon, its consumer health joint venture with GSK, after the business is spun off as an independent company in July, GSK said on Wednesday. Pf...
Jun 01, 2022
Shanghai lifts lockdown, but residents wary COVID curbs can return
By Brenda Goh and Jason Xue SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai sprung back to life on Wednesday after two months of bitter isolation under a ruthless COVID-19 lockdown, with people driving cars again or cr...
May 31, 2022
Australia in talks with U.S. to supply infant formula
(Reuters) - Australia is in talks with the United States to supply infant formula, an Australian government spokesperson said on Wednesday, after the apex U.S. health regulator relaxed its import poli...
May 31, 2022
China reports 131 new COVID cases for May 31 vs 174 a day earlier
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 131 new coronavirus cases for May 31, of which 35 were symptomatic and 96 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday. That compared...
May 31, 2022
U.S. says it will cut costs for clean energy projects on public lands
(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Tuesday said it would substantially reduce the cost of building wind and solar energy projects on federal lands to help spur renewable energy development and ad...
May 31, 2022
