BOSTON (AP) — New parents in Massachusetts should receive better support and postpartum care, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday, following the high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy who, her attorneys argued, was suffering from unresolved postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children in
NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner’s office said in a Facebook post. The cause was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and
Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with the Pan American Health Organization to widen access to its HIV prevention drug across Latin America and the Caribbean, as the regions seek to curb new infections. Under the new agreement, countries t
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s CEO Mike Doustdar on Tuesday urged employees to be more customer-focused, as the Wegovy maker seeks to regain ground in the fast-growing obesity drug market. The push comes as investors question whether Doustdar can restore No
LONDON (AP) — An appeals court judge issued a scathing report Tuesday that found dysfunctional management and a “complete failure” to protect babies at the British hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborns. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of C
By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 15 (Reuters) – Legend Biotech on Tuesday appointed longtime Novartis executive Ingrid Zhang as its CEO, effective immediately, banking on an industry veteran to steer its expansion beyond blockbuster cancer therapy Carvykti. Zhang most recently served as Novartis’ internation
By Mrinalika Roy Sept 15 (Reuters) – Women increasingly turning to testosterone therapy to manage menopause symptoms are running into unexpected prescription delays and denials at pharmacies, according to interviews with more than half a dozen doctors, nurses and patients. There is no U.S.-approved
Sept 15 (Reuters) – GSK said on Tuesday it had agreed a deal worth up to $750 million to buy a trispecific T cell-engager (TCE), a drug designed to help T-cells target cancer, from China-based biotechnology firm Chimagen Biosciences. • A trispecific T cell-engager is an engineered protein that bring
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Vaccine hesitancy in rich countries means ending measles as a global public health threat is not currently possible, Bill Gates told Reuters in an interview. The Microsoft co-founder turned billionaire philanthropist said wiping out the killer childhood
Sept 15 (Reuters) – Contineum Therapeutics said on Monday an experimental depression drug it developed with Johnson & Johnson failed to meet the main goal of a mid-stage study. Here are the details: • The trial was testing the drug, JNJ-5120 or PIPE-307, in patients with major depressive disorder, o
By Mariam Sunny Sept 14 (Reuters) – Eli Lilly on Monday said it has captured more than 30% of new patients in the U.S. market for oral obesity treatments, narrowing the early lead gained by Danish rival Novo Nordisk with its Wegovy pill. Novo CEO Mike Doustdar said in August the company estimated th
By Puyaan Singh and Kamal Choudhury Sept 14 (Reuters) – Doctors, veterans, pharmacists and therapists on Monday urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to establish clear safety and access standards for psychedelic therapies during a four-hour public meeting convened by the agency amid efforts t
Sept 14 (Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay more than $384 million to settle allegations it knowingly manufactured infant formula in environments that posed a substantial risk of contamination, then sold the products to federal and state programs, the U.S. Justice Department said on Mo
NEW YORK (AP) — Bacteria that cause potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease were found in a Yankee Stadium cooling tower — one of 10 such towers in the Bronx that tested positive amid several reported cases of the illness including one death, New York City health officials said. The city’s Health De
Sept 14 – Novo Nordisk is changing its day-to-day name to ‘Novo’, and taking a new approach to company culture as it looks to claw back ground in the fierce obesity drug race, the Danish drugmaker said on Monday. • Novo, which is slated to unveil details on its business strategy during a Capital Mar
Sept 14 (Reuters) – Scholar Rock on Monday said the net annual cost of its newly approved spinal muscular atrophy treatment will be about $310,000 for a typical patient, after the drug became the first therapy approved to directly target muscle loss associated with the rare genetic disorder. The cos
By Kamal Choudhury and Puyaan Singh Sept 14 (Reuters) – Definium Therapeutics said on Monday its LSD-based treatment reduced symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in a second successful late-stage study for the condition. Shares rose 5% on the news. A single 100-microgram dose of DT120, a fast-di
FRANKFURT, Sept 14 (Reuters) – BioNTech said on Monday that a late-stage trial showed its drug candidate gotistobart led to a clinically meaningful overall survival benefit in a certain form of lung cancer compared with standard treatment. It added that results from the PRESERVE-003 Phase 3 clinical
By David French NEW YORK, Sept 13 (Reuters) – The death toll in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak rose this weekend with a county coroner’s report of a woman’s death from complications related to the disease. The coroner’s office of western Pennsylvania’s Jefferson County reported that a 40-year-old w
A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus. The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook post in which he called the death “measles-related.” The post did not id
Sept 13 (Reuters) – GE HealthCare Technologies is in talks over a possible $1 billion deal to buy radiopharmaceutical developer Sofie Biosciences, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Here are some details: • A deal for Sofie, which specializes in radioacti
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Romania ’s capital Saturday to sit down at a miles-long table to break a Guinness record and raise money for what organizers said will be the country’s first pediatric psychiatry hospital. The 5,055-meter (3.1-mile) “Uniting Table” wa
(Corrects paragraph 9 of September 11 story to remove reference to the newly approved drug competing directly with treatments from Biogen, Novartis and Roche) By Sneha S K and Christy Santhosh Sept 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Scholar Rock’s therapy on Friday to trea
DAKAR, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 7,022, government data showed on Friday. The latest situation report from the public health institute also said the Ebola outbreak had spread to a seventh province, South Ubangi, located in the
By Christy Santhosh Sept 11 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s breast cancer pill failed to meet the main goal of improving progression-free survival in a late-stage trial, the company said on Friday, a week after the treatment received U.S. approval. U.S.-listed shares of AstraZeneca fell 3% in aftermarket
By Puyaan Singh and Bhanvi Satija Sept 11 (Reuters) – GSK said on Friday it will be shutting down a vaccine factory in Dresden, Germany, in the summer of 2027, citing decreasing demand for traditional egg-based flu vaccines. The closure would put 641 jobs at risk, according to German trade union Ind
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so meant using one of Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi’s decades-old embryos and racing to beat a government deadline. Just months after their 21‑year‑old son died in a road crash in
By Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – An Ebola case has been detected in a province in the northwestern corner of Democratic Republic of Congo, far from the epicentre of the country’s most lethal outbreak on record, an official said on Friday. • The case involves a man who died on Tuesday in t
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in Congo, the world’s fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record, has now spread to seven provinces in the African country, local authorities said. And it’s showing no signs of slowing down. According to the governor of the northwestern province of Su
LONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the elected House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected 286 to 270. The outcome
