Sept 8 (Reuters) – Amgen’s targeted immunotherapy, Imdelltra, combined with AstraZeneca’s cancer drug Imfinzi, significantly improved overall survival in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer in a late-stage trial, the companies said on Tuesday. Here are some details: • The trial test
Sept 8 (Reuters) – AI healthcare platform Forus said on Tuesday it has raised $150 million in a funding round that valued the company at $3 billion, tripling its valuation in about four months. Here are more details: • The Series C round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which has backed Forus since
By Sneha S K Sept 8 (Reuters) – Inhibrx Biosciences said on Tuesday its experimental combination cancer drug helped reduce tumors in a mid-stage study in patients with a type of head and neck cancer. • In a 68-patient trial for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma that has spread and is inoperable,
By Kunal Das Sept 8 (Reuters) – Pharvaris said on Tuesday its experimental oral drug helped prevent swelling attacks in patients with hereditary angioedema, meeting the main goal of a late-stage trial. Shares of the company were up more than 15% in early trading. • Hereditary angioedema is a rare ge
Sept 8 (Reuters) – Bristol Myers Squibb said on Tuesday its experimental cell therapy showed a high overall response rate in a mid-stage trial, in patients with a hard-to-treat form of blood cancer. The study evaluated the therapy, called arlocabtagene autoleucel, or arlo-cel, in patients with advan
By Sahil Pandey Sept 8 (Reuters) – Roivant said on Tuesday its experimental drug met the main goals of a mid-stage study in patients with high blood pressure associated with a type of lung disease, sending shares up about 17%. Roivant has been expanding its late-stage pipeline after winning U.S. app
By Munsif Vengattil BENGALURU, Sept 8 (Reuters) – EBay has launched an internal review of its shopping website’s safeguards after Reuters flagged that several gender-prediction kits were available for delivery to India, where using them is a criminal offence under a law meant to curb female foeticid
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Shortages of trained staff, operational partners and funding are causing a bottleneck in efforts to expand the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the outbreak spreads geographically, a World Health Organization official said on Tues
By Bhanvi Satija, Dave Graham and Marleen Kaesebier ZURICH, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Novartis said on Tuesday its experimental drug for a muscle-wasting disorder failed a late-stage study, the second major trial setback in days and sending the Swiss drugmaker’s shares down about 9% in one of its worst tra
By Bhanvi Satija and Marleen Kaesebier LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Swiss drug maker Sandoz is switching focus to biosimilars as it shifts away from generics and aims to more than double group net sales by 2035, the company said at its capital markets day on Tuesday. “Our Bio100 ambitions are set to p
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nationwide outbreak of cyclospora tied to contaminated lettuce has heightened safety concerns about imported food, while underscoring a longer-term trend: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch contaminated produce before it lands on American plat
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal held a day of mourning Monday to remember those killed in the Aug. 26 floods, with flags lowered at government offices and families concluding mourning rituals. Monday was the 13th day since the flooding which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left so
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — The husband of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan died Monday while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Zanzibar, the country’s vice president said. Hafidh Ameir Hassan became Tanzania’s first gentleman in 2021, when his wife took office as the country’s first
By Patrick Wingrove Sept 7 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Monday it had halted two additional trials of its experimental cardiovascular drug ziltivekimab, further denting the Danish drugmaker’s efforts to diversify beyond its blockbuster obesity and diabetes franchise. In July, Novo said ziltiveki
COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Monday that in a late-stage trial, 40.4% of children aged 6 to under 12 treated with semaglutide, the active ingredient in its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, were no longer classified as having obesity after 68 weeks, assuming full adherence
By Bhanvi Satija LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Shares of Novartis fell more than 3% on Monday after its cholesterol drug failed in a closely watched study, dealing a blow to what investors had seen as a blockbuster treatment and raising pressure on upcoming data from a muscle-wasting therapy acquired t
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Indian activists spearheading calls for food labelling said a government proposal to have red warnings only when two concerning nutrients are high created an “industry-friendly loophole” disregarding public health, marking the first formal court objectio
Sept 7 (Reuters) – Bubs Australia said on Monday it secured permanent authorisation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell three infant formula products in the country, sending its shares up 30% to their highest close since mid-February. Here are the details: • The stock surged as much a
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo’s Ituri province, the epicenter of history’s deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they dig the graves, prepare the bodies and handle the coffins. B
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Every morning, Mary Kavutha prepares breakfast for her two young children using an induction cooker in her Nairobi home. Two years ago, the businesswoman relied on a charcoal stove that filled her kitchen with smoke and cost about $1.15 in fuel each day. Today, she says, for 80
By Ruma Paul DHAKA, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s dengue outbreak is accelerating, with 42,590 people hospitalised and 117 deaths recorded this year, as a sharp September surge strains hospitals and raises fears the mosquito-borne disease could intensify further in the coming weeks. At least four
US Authorities Seek 4 Pakistanis in $703M Medicare Fraud Case By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line Staff US federal authorities are hunting four Pakistani nationals accused of operating a call center inside Pakistan to steal Medicare data and generate $703 million in fraudulent claims against the US h
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When a friend approached Brent Williams four years ago with a business proposition to start an ostrich farm, he was more than intrigued — he had a personal motivation as someone who developed a life-threatening allergy to red meat, triggered by tick bites. The problem, known as
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Spire Healthcare Group said on Saturday it had agreed to be taken over by consortium comprising funds managed by Toscafund, Three Hills and Ares, valuing its share capital at about £1,026 million ($1.39 billion). The deal, which represents a premium of 66% to the company’s
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — The United States will start phasing out its financial support for Namibia’s HIV response programs, the latest among southern African countries to feel the effects of the withdrawal of foreign aid by the U.S. administration. The U.S. will provide Namibia with $45 million for
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A group of chimpanzees once used in laboratory hepatitis B vaccine experiments has received health checks at their new home in Liberia, in hopes of giving them a second chance at a normal life. The West African chimpanzees received checks ranging from teeth cleaning to X-rays a
By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Havana issued a health alert for Cuba on Friday, warning travelers and residents of a spike in intestinal illnesses and diarrhea caused by failing water and electricity supply, even as the Trump administration continued to hold back fue
The trial to decide if Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her three children in 2023 ended in a mistrial Friday after jurors were unable to reach a consensus after weeks of conflicting testimony about her post-pregnancy mental health and seven days of deliberations. What ha
By Christy Santhosh and Bhanvi Satija Sept 4 (Reuters) – Novartis said on Friday its experimental drug pelacarsen did not cut the risk of major heart attacks and strokes in patients with a genetic risk factor in a late-stage trial, marking a setback to the Swiss drugmaker’s efforts to revive its dru
By Tom Hals Sept 4 (Reuters) – For jurors in the six-week murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the end of their service could be the start of the emotional fallout. The jurors listened to a gut-wrenching emergency call from Clancy’s now ex-husband, reviewed gruesome autopsy photos of the three young chil
