SYDNEY, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Australia will soon begin vaccinating its vulnerable native birds against the deadly H5N1 bird flu as the virus spreads more widely after first being detected in the country in June, the government said on Tuesday. The vaccine rollout will begin in the “coming days and wee
A former leader of a Northern Arizona University fraternity pleaded guilty Monday to hazing and causing a pledge’s death by making him drink excessively at an off-campus rush event. Carter Eslick, 20, entered the plea to a felony hazing charge involving the death of Colin Daniel Martinez, 18, in Coc
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mu
By Sneha S K and Amina Niasse NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Hims & Hers Health posted a wider-than-expected second-quarter loss on Monday as the telehealth company’s shift to branded weight-loss drugs drove up costs, sending its shares down 6% in extended trading. The company’s growing GLP-1 weight-l
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. administration is recognizing childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core inoculations, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. Trumps said vaccinations for hepatitis B, COVID-19 and influenza, among others, were no long
By Jacob Bogage and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations, which he said would give U.S. children “gold-standard” protection and
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 69 people, trapping residents under debris of collapsed buildings and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá. The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a co
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods. The proposal would change a decades-old policy that advocates have called a regulatory
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday took steps to increase oversight of food additives as part of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Ke
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is freezing her eggs as she decides her next political moves ahead of the 2028 presidential election campaign. “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” Ocasio-Cortez, 36, said on Instagram about her decision regarding her reproduc
By Sahil Pandey Aug 10 (Reuters) – Jazz Pharmaceuticals said on Monday it would buy privately held Actio Biosciences in a deal valued at up to $1.32 billion, adding an experimental treatment for a rare inherited form of epilepsy that has no approved therapies. The treatment, called ABS-1230, is bein
By Padmanabhan Ananthan Aug 10 (Reuters) – MoonLake Immunotherapeutics said on Monday its experimental drug met all main goals in a late-stage trial involving adults with an inflammatory disease who had not previously received biologic medicines. However, shares of the Switzerland-based company fell
Aug 10 (Reuters) – Sionna Therapeutics said on Monday it would stop developing its experimental drug as an addition to standard treatment for a type of genetic disorder after it failed to show a meaningful benefit in a mid-stage trial. Shares of the company fell nearly 92% in premarket trading. • Th
Aug 10 (Reuters) – The British medicines regulator on Monday authorised Eli Lilly’s pill Foundayo for weight management and type 2 diabetes, becoming Europe’s first country to do so. Shares of the Indianapolis-based company were up more than 2% in morning trading. “Whilst this tablet is approved for
Aug 10 (Reuters) – AbCellera said on Monday its experimental menopause treatment significantly reduced the frequency and severity of hot flashes in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares up nearly 35% in premarket trading. The non-hormonal antibody therapy, ABCL635, is being developed as a long-actin
Aug 10 (Reuters) – Tenax Therapeutics said on Monday its experimental drug did not significantly improve how far patients could walk compared with placebo in a late-stage trial testing TNX-103 for a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Shares of the company plunged more than 85% in premarket tr
Aug 10 (Reuters) – India’s Gland Pharma reported a bigger-than-expected first-quarter profit on Monday, boosted by strong sales in its key European and U.S. markets. The Hyderabad-based company reported a consolidated net profit of 3.17 billion rupees ($33.3 million) for the quarter ended June 30, f
By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Thermo Fisher Scientific is eyeing a 15%-20% increase in its customer base in India over the next five years, betting on the growing biopharma research and manufacturing ecosystem, the head of its India unit said. The U.S.-based company, which makes lab
Aug 9 (Reuters) – Taylor Farms said on Sunday it was recalling prepared food items containing jalapenos from retailers, including Walmart, Kroger and Whole Foods in some states, over concerns about potential salmonella contamination. The California-based supplier said it had voluntarily recalled the
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state’s health department sa
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — No cases of Ebola have been detected among passengers on a river boat that was placed in quarantine near Kinshasa, health authorities have said. The confirmation announced on Saturday eased concerns that the rare Bundibugyo virus might spread to the Congolese capital. More tha
By Danielle Kaye and Waylon Cunningham NEW YORK, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Michigan health officials cleared shoppers to put lettuce back in their grocery carts, but anxiety about cyclosporiasis is lingering in the grocery aisles, with some produce sellers supplied by local farms saying customers have turne
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Senate voted Friday to confirm Mark Cruz, a citizen of the Klamath Tribes, to lead the federal agency that provides healthcare for some 2.8 million Native American and Alaska Native patients. Cruz was confirmed to serve a four-year term as director of the Indian Hea
(Corrects to say Indiana facility of Novo Nordisk, not Catalent, in headline and paragraph 1) By Sneha S K Aug 7 (Reuters) – Scholar Rock said on Friday it would remove Novo Nordisk’s Indiana manufacturing facility from its application seeking FDA approval for a rare neuromuscular disease drug. Last
New Mexico’s attorney general hopes a state court ruling ordering Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million and take steps to protect people under 18 is the impetus for addressing how Big Tech can harm children. Thursday’s decision ended the second phase of a landmark trial. Jurors earlier th
Lindsay Clancy ‘s murder trial zeroed in Friday on her psychiatric care before she killed her three children, with testimony tracing a monthslong path to a final appointment the day before the tragedy. In that virtual visit on Jan. 23, 2023, the Massachusetts mother appeared depressed, said she felt
Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. is temporarily restricting travel for certain passengers who recently visited Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an effort to reduce the risk of Ebola transmission. The measures are a part of U.S. public health protocols for travelers arrivin
By Padmanabhan Ananthan and Kunal Das Aug 7 (Reuters) – Shares of ResMed dropped about 6% in morning trade on Friday after the medtech company forecast fiscal 2027 revenue below Wall Street expectations, impacted by suspended ventilator sales and cost pressures. ResMed said it would suspend sales of
Aug 7 (Reuters) – Grail said on Friday the U.S. FDA plans to hold a meeting of outside experts to review its multi-cancer screening test Galleri in September, sending its shares up 5%. The panel will review Grail’s request for premarket approval, the Food and Drug Administration’s most stringent rev
BENGALURU, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Blackstone-owned AGS Health on Friday filed updated draft papers for a 48-billion-rupee ($504 million) initial public offering in India, nearly two months after securing the markets regulator’s approval for a listing. • The IPO consists of a fresh issue of shares worth u
