Aug 18 (Reuters) – GE HealthCare said on Tuesday it had appointed William Grogan chief financial officer, effective September 14, succeeding Jay Saccaro after he stepped down last month. • Grogan joins GE HealthCare from water pump maker Xylem, where he served as the finance chief from 2023. He also
Aug 18 (Reuters) – Medical equipment maker Coloplast expects its Kerecis wound-care business to return to growth from January 2027 after changes to U.S. Medicare payments caused sales in outpatient settings to fall sharply, its finance chief told Reuters on Tuesday. The outpatient business, which ac
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has been taking credit for new federal data that shows U.S. prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago, the steepest year-over-year drop since 1963. The plunging prices, the White House said, resulted from the Republican presid
NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers
By Kamal Choudhury Aug 18 (Reuters) – Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ experimental drug sharply reduced dangerously low blood sugar episodes in a late-stage trial of patients who underwent weight-loss surgery, sending its shares up more than 45% on Tuesday. There are no approved treatments for post-bariatri
By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA/LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday it was still possible to bring under control an Ebola outbreak that is outpacing containment efforts and has become the second-deadliest on record. The global health agency said ea
By Jesus Calero Aug 18 (Reuters) – Danish drugmaker LEO Pharma said on Tuesday it had agreed to acquire worldwide rights to drug candidate dersimelagon from Tanabe Pharma for up to $435 million in up-front and near-term milestone payments. As LEO Pharma explores a potential stock-market listing, the
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — En Poy was minding cattle in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia when he set off his first land mine. The blast from the rusty relic he picked up cost him an arm and an eye. It also inspired his career with the nonprofit Cambodian Self Help Demining, which clears l
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana residents remained on alert while returning to their flood-ravaged homes Monday as repeated rounds of thunderstorms and heavy rain moved east from the Midwest into the mid-Atlantic and high heat scorched much of the South and Southwest. In central and east central Indiana
By Sherin Sunny and Nikita Maria Jino Aug 18 (Reuters) – CSL reported better-than-expected annual underlying earnings on Tuesday and forecast growth in 2027 on the back of its core plasma division, sending the Australian biotechnology giant’s shares up 18% in their best intraday session since 2001.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.2%, up from 3.6% the year before. That’s an e
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 ca
By Clement Bonnerot and Jessica Donati DAKAR, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The ongoing Ebola outbreak is now the second-most lethal on record and the deadliest in the history of Democratic Republic of Congo. Only the epidemic in West Africa in 2014-16 killed more people. The grim milestone was reached on Sund
Aug 17 (Reuters) – Fulcrum Therapeutics said on Monday it would merge with privately held Slate Medicines in an all-stock deal, as the biotech looks to rebuild its pipeline after it discontinued development of its lead drug candidate last month. Fulcrum shares rose about 7% in premarket trading. Her
By Kamal Choudhury Aug 17 (Reuters) – EyePoint said its experimental drug missed the main goal in a late-stage trial as a few patients lost vision from causes unrelated to the targeted disease, sending its shares tumbling more than 70% on Monday. The company was testing its drug Duravyu against Eyle
AMSTERDAM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A West Nile virus infection has been detected in the Netherlands for the first time since 2020, Dutch public health institution RIVM said on Monday. The virus, which mostly spreads to people through mosquito bites, can cause severe, life-threatening illness in about one
By Raechel Thankam Job and Yadarisa Shabong Aug 17 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said it is ending a late-stage trial that combined one of its key experimental drugs with chemotherapy to treat a certain type of lung cancer, extending a run of setbacks that has deepened scrutiny of the drugmaker’s developm
Aug 17 (Reuters) – Belgian-Dutch immunology company argenx said on Monday its autoimmune drug Vyvgart met the primary endpoint in a late-stage study in autoimmune myositis, potentially opening a major new market for the medicine beyond its core neurology franchise. Shares in argenx rose 11% as inves
SHANGHAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Swiss generic drugmaker Sandoz will pay up to $77 million upfront to Shanghai Henlius Biotech for rights to three biosimilar drugs to treat cholesterol, lupus and colorectal cancer, the Chinese drugmaker said on Monday. The three treatments are in clinical or pre-clinica
HANOI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Vietnam wants to bring its sex ratio at birth down to the natural level of about 106 boys for every 100 girls by 2035, according to a draft plan from the Ministry of Health that proposes action against sex-selection services and efforts to challenge long-standing preference
Aug 16 (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country’s history. Congo’s public health institute said in its latest report that confirmed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at his home in Bradenton, Florida, on Saturday night, agent Mike
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — Days of storms and flooding in Indiana left at least six people dead as floodwaters peaked in Indianapolis’ White River and rains were expected to ease in the state capital region and other parts of the state Sunday. A 4-year-old boy, two men and three women were among thos
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Powerful storms and floods have killed at least six people in Indiana, including a 4-year-old boy, state officials said on Saturday. • In addition to the boy, three females and two males have died since the storm system started on Tuesday, the Indiana State Emergency O
By Norihiko Shirouzu Aug 15 (Reuters) – Hurricane Lala approached Hawaii with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, leaving more than 40,000 utility customers without power across the state as the National Hurricane Center warned of “life-threatening” conditions. The poweroutage.com website showe
Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods and unwanted facial hair — the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece together. “I’d go home and I’d cry,” said Touzalin, an 18-year-old college
NIZI, Congo (AP) — Every day, community health worker Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team fan out across communities in eastern Congo looking for people who may have crossed paths with the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. The workers investigate dozens of alerts, search for those ex
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt. In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says Idaho can’t prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person’s health or prevent self-harm. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made the ruling Thursday, writing that Idaho’s “Defense of Life Act” and “Fetal Heartbeat Act” — which together
President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena issued by the Justice Department against a provider of medical treatment for transgender youth, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday. The Justice Department announced
