By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 17 (Reuters) – Orbis Medicines said on Thursday it had signed a drug discovery and licensing agreement worth up to $1.4 billion with Novo Nordisk to develop oral therapies for cardiometabolic diseases, traditionally treated with injectable drugs. Here are the details: • The d
By Siddhi Mahatole and Padmanabhan Ananthan Sept 17 (Reuters) – US health regulators weighing testosterone use in menopausal women at a public meeting on Thursday were told by some experts that a female-specific product was needed while others pointed to gaps in evidence on the hormone’s broader ben
By Akash Sriram and Mariam Sunny Sept 17 (Reuters) – As the International Space Station nears the end of its operational life, drugmakers are laying the groundwork for commercial pharmaceutical research and manufacturing in low Earth orbit, while working with regulators to establish rules for produc
Sept 17 (Reuters) – U.S.-based private equity firm Advent International said on Thursday it will invest 31.5 billion rupees ($328.53 million) in Yatharth Hospital for a 24.9% stake, sending shares of the Indian hospital operator to a record high. Shares rose as much as 8.6% to an all-time high of 1,
Sept 17 (Reuters) – French healthcare provider Ramsay Generale de Sante expects its revenue to grow by 2% to 3% in 2027, with a stable core profit margin compared to 2026, it said ahead of its capital markets day on Thursday. The company expects its gross capital expenditure to average about 4% of r
WELLINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Fiji has declared HIV a national crisis after new diagnoses climbed 27% last year, intensifying concern that an epidemic once concentrated among people who inject drugs is spreading more widely through the Pacific island nation. The government said in a statement post
Sept 17 (Reuters) – Longeveron on Wednesday said it would explore strategic options after its experimental stem cell therapy failed to meet the main goal of a mid-stage trial for a rare infant heart condition. Shares of the company, which have gained 32% so far this year, plunged nearly 60% in after
By Sriparna Roy Sept 16 (Reuters) – Novartis has halted development of an experimental drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis after it failed to meet goals in a mid-stage study, marking the latest disappointment for the Swiss drugmaker this year. This follows an earlier setback for a closely watched
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. health agency is hailing “encouraging signs” in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in one part of eastern Congo, while warning that case counts are rising fast in another as officials race to tamp down the virus. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros A
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Scientists have transplanted laboratory-grown human brain tissue into bioengineered mice in what they call an important advance for studying human brain development that may speed research into the causes and mechanisms of devastating disorders such as
By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 16 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Wednesday there were encouraging signs measures to contain an Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo were gaining ground, though it warned the outbreak was “far from over.” Transmission was declining in the most aff
Sept 16 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has partnered with Anthropic to use the AI giant’s Claude models to speed up discovery and development of new medicines, the companies said on Wednesday. Here are more details: • The Danish drugmaker will initially test Anthropic models and Claude Science in its rese
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s third surgeon general nominee, was grilled at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about her stance on childhood vaccines, voicing support for immunization as she seeks to serve in an administration that has moved to make sweeping c
By Kunal Das and Siddhi Mahatole Sept 16 (Reuters) – Drug developer Sling Therapeutics said on Wednesday it had raised $123 million to advance a late-stage trial of its experimental oral drug to treat thyroid eye disease. The disease causes inflammation and swelling around the eyes, which can lead t
By Nancy Lapid Sept 15 (Reuters) – Hello Health Rounds readers! Today we highlight a potentially game-changing experimental contrast agent for MRI exams that may enable detection of lung cancer when tumors are small and more treatment options are available. We also report on a Johnson & Johnson anti
TOKYO (AP) — The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan surpassed a record 100,000 this year, the latest government figures show, underscoring the country’s rapidly aging and declining population. The Health and Welfare Ministry statistics released Tuesday show Japan now has 107,677 centenarian
By Kane Wu HONG KONG, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Chinese social media and internet company ByteDance has completed a $290 million fundraising for its AI drugmaking unit after spinning it off from the group, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. Shanghai-headquartered Anew Labs, which u
For generations, kids have learned how to ride a bike — a quintessential childhood milestone — in driveways, on sidewalks and in neighborhood streets. Now, they’re learning in school gyms and playgrounds. On a recent September day, kindergarteners at Terra Vista Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga
By Richa Naidu and Arriana McLymore LONDON/NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) – More than 20 banned skin-bleaching products containing mercury are available for purchase on third-party marketplaces run by Amazon, Temu and TikTok Shop in several countries, despite decades of efforts by health advocates and
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Efforts to prevent people from getting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis were hit harder by global aid cuts last year than services to treat existing patients, according to the head of a global partnership to fight the three killer diseases. That saved live
By Nancy Lapid Sept 15 (Reuters) – An experimental peptide backed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and marketed online for pain, healing and performance enhancement is being used for a wide range of ailments despite little safety and efficacy evidence from human studies, a new analysis
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
