WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, at least for now, sidesteps calls for his prosecution if h
By Sriparna Roy and Sneha S K July 29 (Reuters) – Humana stuck to its annual adjusted profit forecast on Wednesday for a second consecutive quarter, disappointing Wall Street and pushing the health insurer’s shares down 5% in morning trading. Investor expectations for health insurers have risen afte
By Tom Polansek and Anuja Bharat Mistry July 29 (Reuters) – U.S. consumers are steering clear of some restaurant chains and buying less lettuce in grocery stores as a multistate outbreak of a parasitic disease fuels confusion over what is safe to eat, according to foot traffic data and industry sou
July 29 (Reuters) – Biogen reported second-quarter profit and revenue that topped Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, driven by strong demand for its rare-disease medicines, while sales of its legacy multiple sclerosis drugs stayed under pressure. Investors are closely watching whether recent deals
SYDNEY, July 29 (Reuters) – Australia said on Wednesday the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus is being transmitted locally in the native bird population, raising concerns that the disease is beginning to spread more widely after it first appeared in the country in June. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries
July 29 (Reuters) – German drug packaging firm Gerresheimer said on Wednesday it was selling two plastic packaging units, including the U.S business Centor, to private equity group Apax Funds for €1.5 billion ($1.71 billion) including debt. The sale follows internal investigations into Gerresheimer’
July 29 (Reuters) – Australian biotechnology firm CSL said on Wednesday it would start clinical trials to support regulatory approval for a new manufacturing process aimed at lifting immunoglobulin output from the same amount of plasma. Here are the details: • CSL said the studies would test the saf
Injuries can play as big a role in an NFL team’s successes or failures as the best game plans. Depth is crucial during a rigorous 17-game regular season that’s preceded by a month of training camp practices in hot conditions and three preseason games as players try to make their team’s 53-man active
By Alistair Smout and David Milliken LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will on Wednesday pledge to overhaul the adult social care system, offering to work with other parties to better fund a service that can cost families hundreds of thousands of pounds. Burnham became
By Padmanabhan Ananthan July 28 (Reuters) – The Trump administration will end a subsidy program, meant to keep premiums stable for Medicare prescription drug plans, after 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday. The agency said its review of 2027 bids showed insurers have
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country’s last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo. Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were
By Jonathan Stempel July 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said on Tuesday that Novo Nordisk must face part of a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding shareholders about a clinical trial for its weight loss and diabetes treatment CagriSema. Novo Nordisk’s American depositary receipts fell 17.8% on December 20
By Siddhi Mahatole and Christy Santhosh July 28 (Reuters) – Michigan health officials reported 9,680 cases of cyclosporiasis on Tuesday, an increase of 427 cases from a day earlier, as the growing intestinal parasitic outbreak keeps U.S. consumers on edge about buying raw produce. Shoppers have worr
July 28 (Reuters) – Italian drug maker Recordati on Tuesday posted an 8.8% rise in its first-half core profit (EBITDA) to €540.2 million ($615.6 million) boosted by its rare diseases segment. The results follow an announcement earlier this month that a majority of Recordati’s board deemed a €10.7 bi
A key question in a Massachusetts murder trial is whether postpartum psychosis drove a mother to kill her three children. On Monday, a jury heard opening statements in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Both sides agree she strangled her
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants partic
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you’ve ever tossed out a carton of milk or a container of yogurt solely because the date on the packaging had passed, you’re not alone. Many people throw away food simply because of the date printed on the label. But often it is still perfectly edible, according to experts. W
By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST, July 28 (Reuters) – Thousands of Romanian doctors, nurses and other health workers went on an indefinite strike for the first time in a decade on Tuesday, protesting job freezes and a public sector wage bill pending parliamentary approval that is key for the country to tap E
LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – British drugmaker GSK said on Tuesday it will invest £400 million ($531 million) over three years in the country, including moving its R&D operations to Cambridge, as part of its plans to develop medicines faster under new CEO Luke Miels. GSK’s investment comes a few mont
July 28 (Reuters) – IQVIA Holdings raised its annual profit forecast on Tuesday after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter results, driven by strong demand for its healthcare data and analytics services, sending its shares up 11% before the bell. Here are the details: • IQVIA and other cont
July 28 (Reuters) – Drugmaker Incyte Corp reported on Tuesday higher second-quarter earnings and raised its annual revenue forecast after it settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government over Medicaid rebates tied to eczema cream Opzelura. Here are the details: • The U.S. drugmaker raised its 2026 reve
July 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen who became infected with the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged from Frankfurt University Hospital on Tuesday after making a full recovery, the hospital said in a statement. • The patient had been admitted to the hospital’s special isolation
July 28 (Reuters) – Benefits of Replimune’s skin cancer drug remain unclear due to flaws in the trial design that make it difficult to determine whether tumor shrinkage was driven by the drug or another therapy, FDA staff reviewers said in briefing documents released on Tuesday. Shares of the compan
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Confirmed cases in Congo’s ongoing Ebola outbreak have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in an overnight update, nearly the same as the 2018-2020 outbreak that is the largest ever recorded in the country. Data from the Congolese health ministry showed that 1,437 patients
July 28 (Reuters) – Altimmune said on Tuesday its experimental drug helped patients with alcohol use disorder cut back on heavy drinking in a mid-stage trial, sending the company’s shares 10% higher in premarket trading. The drug, pemvidutide, showed a placebo-adjusted reduction of 1.45 heavy drinki
July 28 (Reuters) – GSK launched a £1.9 billion ($2.52 billion) cost-savings drive on Tuesday to help fund the British drugmaker’s expanded late-stage study roster, aiming to deliver on CEO Luke Miels’ promise of faster drug development and boost investor trust. Shares rose as much as 5% after it al
July 28 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-listed Hansoh Pharmaceutical said on Tuesday that its B7-H3-directed antibody-drug conjugate, HS-20093, met the primary endpoint in a late-stage clinical trial. The company said the drug showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progres
July 28 (Reuters) – GSK on Tuesday said partner Hansoh Pharmaceutical’s experimental drug met the main goal of keeping an aggressive bone cancer from worsening in a late-stage trial, boosting the British drugmaker’s efforts to rebuild its cancer portfolio. The treatment, ris-rez, met its primary end
July 28 (Reuters) – Centene on Tuesday raised its annual profit and revenue forecasts after beating estimates for quarterly earnings, as the health insurer kept control of its costs. The upbeat results and forecast, which sent the company’s shares up more than 2% before the bell, come as a relief fo
By Elias Biryabarema NAIROBI, July 28 (Reuters) – Uganda’s health minister declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday following the East African nation’s latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease that infected 20 people and killed two of them. Uganda has suffered multiple outbreaks of Ebola
