Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
South Korea plans mass vaccination of cattle to contain lumpy skin disease
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign to contain an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cattle, the government said on Wednesday, after 29 cases have been repor...
Oct 24, 2023
23andMe notifies customers of data breach into its ‘DNA Relatives’ feature
By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Genetics testing company 23andMe on Tuesday sent emails to several customers to inform them of a breach into the "DNA Relatives" feature that allowed them to...
Oct 24, 2023
Georgia’s top court leaves six-week abortion ban in place
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A Georgia law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy can remain in effect, the state's highest court decided on Tuesday, ruling against a challenge by...
Oct 24, 2023
Meta sued by US states for allegedly harming mental health of young people
(Reuters) -Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the addictive nature of their social media platf...
Oct 24, 2023
Quest raises annual forecast as routine testing recovery powers quarterly beat
(Reuters) - Laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics on Tuesday raised its full-year sales forecast after beating third-quarter expectations for revenue and profit, buoyed by a recovery in routine testin...
Oct 24, 2023
HCA misses quarterly profit estimates on higher staffing cost
(Reuters) - HCA Healthcare missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Tuesday, hurt by an increase in staffing costs and weak sales at its physician staffing joint venture Valesco, sending i...
Oct 24, 2023
EU sets up new mechanisms to stave off medicine shortages
By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Tuesday launched some short-term measures to prevent medicine shortages this winter and the next as a stop-gap while a proposed pharmaceu...
Oct 24, 2023
Centene beats quarterly profit estimates on lower-than-expected medical costs
(Reuters) -Centene Corp beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by lower-than-feared medical costs. Easing fears over medical costs, which were expected to see a jump tr...
Oct 24, 2023
Belgium plans temporary ban on use of Ozempic for weight loss
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgium wants to temporarily ban the use of Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Ozempic as a weight loss treatment amid a shortage of the medicine, the Belgian health mi...
Oct 24, 2023
Hong Kong’s Templewater to acquire Luye Medical’s Singapore health units
(Reuters) - Hong Kong-based private equity firm Templewater is acquiring Luye Medical Group's oncology and cardiology businesses in Singapore, the company said on Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal ...
Oct 24, 2023
