Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Bio-Techne’s quarterly profit misses estimates as biotech funding woes persist
(Reuters) - Bio-Techne missed Wall Street expectations for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as a persisting funding crunch among its biotech clients weighed on demand for its diagnostic products and c...
Oct 31, 2023
Amgen third-quarter sales rise 5%; profit up before charge
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Amgen, which earlier this month acquired Horizon Therapeutics for $27.8 billion, on Tuesday said its third-quarter product sales rose 5% as double-digit volume growth was ...
Oct 31, 2023
Pfizer swings to quarterly loss due to Paxlovid write-off
(Reuters) -Pfizer on Tuesday reported its first quarterly loss since 2019, as the U.S. drugmaker recorded $5.6 billion in charges related to its COVID products like its antiviral treatment Paxlovid an...
Oct 31, 2023
Judge blocks Kansas law requiring doctors to say medication abortion can be reversed
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A judge in Kansas on Monday blocked a state law requiring healthcare providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed and that abortion is linked to b...
Oct 30, 2023
Tenet Healthcare lifts annual forecast as surgery volumes recover
(Reuters) - Tenet Healthcare Corp on Monday raised its core-earnings forecast for the year following a strong third quarter, betting on a recovery in surgical procedures from pandemic lows and an impr...
Oct 30, 2023
Sarepta’s gene therapy fails primary goal in rare muscular dystrophy trial
(Reuters) -Sarepta Therapeutics' gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) failed to meet the main goal of a late-stage trial, the company reported after the bell on Monday. The therapy ...
Oct 30, 2023
Belgium seizes fake weight-loss drugs containing insulin
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) - Belgium's drug regulator said it had seized counterfeit versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's popular obesity drug Wegovy, in which the injec...
Oct 30, 2023
Providers can sue over Arizona ban on abortion for genetic anomalies -court
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a challenge to an Arizona law banning abortions from being performed solely because the fetus has a genetic abnormality. A three-j...
Oct 30, 2023
Boris Johnson’s response to COVID was ‘mad and dangerous’- top official
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's approach to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was "mad and dangerous" and his constant indecision made it "impossi...
Oct 30, 2023
Bluebird bio to sell sickle cell gene therapy FDA voucher for $103 million if approved
(Reuters) - Bluebird bio said on Monday it has agreed to sell its priority review voucher for $103 million, if it gets the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for its gene therapy for sickle ...
Oct 30, 2023
