By Amina Niasse NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) – AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released Thursday. Between 2024 and 2025, providers more freque
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The US Senate health committee will hold a confirmation hearing on Thursday for Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the embattled FDA, as it also weighs advancing his surgeon general nominee. Trump nominated Overton, a White House
By Gemma Guasch Sept 24 (Reuters) – Spanish drugmaker Grifols said Health Canada’s decision to suspend its license to collect plasma at its Taylor Avenue facility in Winnipeg had no impact on ongoing operations. Health Canada officially suspended the facility’s license to collect the blood component
LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) – US packaged food companies could prevent around 150,000 diet-related deaths annually by moving sales towards healthier products in sectors including baked goods, savory snacks, cookies and candy, a study published on Thursday showed. Here are some more details: • Netherla
By Aditya Kalra and Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, Sept 24 (Reuters) – India is moving closer to new regulations to restrict the sale of foods high in fat and sugar within a 50-metre radius of schools, the latest proposal to cut the consumption of junk food in a country battling growing rates of
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to take over the Food and Drug Administration is set to answer questions Thursday, with Senate lawmakers likely to focus on her plans for vaccines, the abortion pill and other products that have come under new scrutiny at the regulatory agency. Dr.
Sept 24 (Reuters) – Chinese drugmaker InnoCare Pharma said on Thursday it had entered into a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Eli Lilly worth up to about $3.35 billion. Here are some more details: • InnoCare would receive up to $100 million in upfront and near-term payments and ab
By Padmanabhan Ananthan and Kamal Choudhury Sept 23 (Reuters) – A panel of outside experts advising the US FDA said on Wednesday the benefits of Grail’s blood-based cancer detection test outweigh its risks, paving the way for a potential landmark approval in cancer screening. In a 7-2 vote with one
NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The US State Department on Wednesday pledged an additional $267 million toward fighting the Ebola outbreak in central Africa, as health authorities battle to get the deadly virus under control. Senior State Department officials announced the funding on the sidelines of
Sept 23 (Reuters) – The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to unveil measures in the coming days that would speed up approvals for vaping products and nicotine pouches, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The FDA is expected to announce it
A coroner’s report notes actor Hayden Panettiere had been in rehab just weeks before her death from an accidental drug overdose. Although details of her care are unknown, people with drug addictions face a high risk of fatal overdose immediately after a period of sobriety. Experts say they may not r
By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 23 (Reuters) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there was one US measles-related death on its website on Wednesday, weeks after Pennsylvania health officials reported the first two of four measles-associated deaths in its state. The CDC had not
WINDHOEK, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Namibia has detected an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in its internationally recognised disease-free zone, prompting authorities to suspend the movement, import and export of cloven-hoofed animals and their products. • Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious viral in
Israel’s Children Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis. What Will the Next Government Do About It? Political candidates agreed during an ICAR Collective webinar that the focus should extend beyond identifying symptoms and responding to mental health crises in children to preventing those crises wheneve
By Puyaan Singh Sept 23 (Reuters) – Basecamp Research said on Wednesday it has raised $140 million in a Series C funding round that valued the AI-based drug developer at $800 million. The oversubscribed round was led by S32, with participation from Nvidia, Anthropic’s Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 23 (Reuters) – India toughened its stance on proposed warning labels for packaged foods on Wednesday, saying products high in salt, sugar or fat would carry red warning symbols even if only one of those ingredients exceeded limits, dealing a setback to the $100 billio
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF finds that about half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, pointing to economic frustration among a key group that has backed Trump and other R
The practice of allowing a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in recent years in several countries across the world. In the U.S., New York and Illinois recently became the latest of 13 states to join an accelerating pace of legislation with this
CHICAGO (AP) — Deb Robertson counted the days, hoping she’d live long enough for a new Illinois law to go into effect that allows terminally ill people like her to use a lethal prescription to end their lives. A diagnosis of a rare, aggressive form of cancer had forced her into retirement after thre
WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic frustration among a key group that has backed him and other Republicans in recent elections. The Associate
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid Sept 23 (Reuters) – Today we report on a real-world study that may help inform which drug is the best GLP-1 option for those with significant recent weight gain. We
BRUSSELS, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Kimberly-Clark has offered concessions to address EU antitrust concerns about its $40 billion bid for Tylenol maker Kenvue, a filing on the European Commission website showed on Wednesday. The European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, did not provi
ZURICH, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Roche on Wednesday said it was proposing Christoph Weber, the former CEO of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, for election to the Swiss company’s board of directors at its AGM next March. “Christophe’s intimate knowledge of the healthcare industry and his broad leadership experienc
Sept 23 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk is open to considering a direct New York Stock Exchange listing, replacing the American depositary receipts through which US investors currently trade its shares, CEO Mike Doustdar told the Financial Times in an interview published on Wednesday. The US accounts for m
BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) – China has issued a set of guidelines for handling criminal cases involving fentanyl-related substances to ensure proper law enforcement, according to its judicial and public security authorities. The guidelines come a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected t
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana. Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena was foun
By Nancy Lapid Sept 22 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to physicians in regions without access to the technology, the companies said on Tuesday. OpenEvidence answers doct
By Emma Rumney LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Anheuser-Busch InBev will sell smaller pack sizes, beers with added protein or electrolytes and push further into drinks beyond beer, executives said on Tuesday, as the top brewer looks to grow amid shifting drinking habits, strained incomes and a trend tow
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the
By Patrick Wingrove LONDON, Sept 22 – Weight-loss pills could capture as much as half of the global obesity drug market by 2030, Novo Nordisk’s chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday, as the Danish drugmaker positions itself for a shift away from weekly injections. CEO Mike Doustdar said Novo was p
