July 21 (Reuters) – Drugmaker Granules India reported a nearly 60% rise in first-quarter profit on Tuesday as margins improved in its complex generics business. Consolidated net profit for the quarter ended June 30 rose to 1.8 billion rupees ($18.71 million), compared to 1.13 billion rupees a year e
By Bhanvi Satija and Marleen Kaesebier LONDON, July 21 – Novartis exceeded second-quarter core operating profit forecasts on Tuesday, as cost control and sales of newer medicines helped it cushion a 50% drop in sales of its top-selling heart drug Entresto. The Swiss drugmaker’s quarterly operating p
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, July 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s public health services and hospitals are battling the worst outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue in nearly a decade, and turning to the island nation’s armed forces to help curb the spread of the disease. The efforts range from air force dro
NEW YORK (AP) — Road deaths are declining in the U.S. and worldwide, but lower-income countries aren’t experiencing much of the improvement, according to a study published Monday. Global rates of road injuries and deaths each fell more than 30% between 1990 and 2023, according to the study published
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan activists on Monday accused authorities of violating a court order from last month halting the setting up of an American-backed Ebola quarantine center after reports surfaced that Americans were being quarantined in the country. The center was meant to take in and quaran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly publicized over the weekend. Food and Drug Administration officia
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, July 20 (Reuters) – Cyclospora, the parasite behind thousands of suspected U.S. cases of a foodborne illness, has a long incubation period, and samples cannot be cultured in labs, making it especially challenging to trace. To investigate, laboratory scientists have work
July 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday said that traceback investigation data gathered as part of a probe into an outbreak of cyclosporiasis pointed to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico. The agency’s latest statement came after it had
By Sahil Pandey July 20 (Reuters) – Scholar Rock said on Monday a European Union opinion on its experimental spinal muscular atrophy treatment could be pushed to later this year, as regulators await the U.S. FDA’s classification of a manufacturing facility included in the drug developer’s European f
By Ahmed Aboulenein, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. FDA on Monday said the basis for linking Taylor Farms’ lettuce from Central Mexico to the largest U.S. foodborne illness outbreak in recent years remains unchanged, defending its decision to publiciz
By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG, July 20 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare said on Monday that its Canadian subsidiary had received regulatory approval from Health Canada for Aspen-Semaglutide, a generic version of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic. Africa’s biggest pharmaceu
By Christy Santhosh July 20 (Reuters) – Tempus AI said on Monday it would buy Personalis in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion, adding a cancer test to the AI-enabled precision medicine firm’s oncology portfolio. Personalis shares fell 12% in morning trading, while Tempus dropped nearly 9%. Persona
SHANGHAI, July 20 (Reuters) – An artificial intelligence-focused subsidiary of Chinese medical technology giant Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare is taking a cautious approach to deploying AI tools, its top executive said, even as China pushes for broader adoption of the technology across key secto
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The death toll in Congo’s Ebola outbreak has risen to at least 930, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Monday, with 37 new deaths reported in a 24-hour span Friday into Saturday, one of the highest totals. The deaths were recorded out of the 2,344 cases confirmed as of Satu
By Rishika Sadam July 20 (Reuters) – Takeda Pharmaceutical’s dengue vaccine Qdenga has been approved by India’s drug regulator, making it the first such vaccine to be cleared in the country, the Japanese drugmaker’s India unit said on Monday. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease and one of the f
By Bhanvi Satija LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – Novartis investors will look beyond Tuesday’s quarterly results for indications about three major drug trial readouts due in the second half of the year seen as vital to justifying the Swiss drugmaker’s premium valuation. Analysts say the experimental dru
July 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Sunday that laboratory experts re-checked lettuce sample results from Taylor Farms in an investigation into an outbreak of the cyclospora parasite and concluded the finding should be considered a false positive. As of Sunday, there we
July 20 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Samsung Biologics will launch a 1.46 billion Swiss francs ($1.81 billion) all-cash bid for Swiss contract drugmaker PolyPeptide, the companies said in separate statements. The offer at 44.31 Swiss francs per share represents a premium of about 6.1% to PolyPeptide’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on Sunday announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years. Born Sunday, Alec Neel Vance joins older siblings Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4. Vance announced
NEW YORK (AP) — A second person has died in connection with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York, the New York City Health Department announced Saturday. The outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has infected 72 people, according to health officials. Two people have died. The first dea
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Maryam Aminu was hardly surprised when the last of her six children was diagnosed with malnutrition in April for a second time. She was barely feeding the 18-month-old regularly, let alone with nutritious foods. Although the family in northwest Nigeria has struggled with econo
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. Products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-causing parasite were s
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — At least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers have been recorded during Congo’s Ebola outbreak as safety fears restrict the response in the worst-affected region, authorities said Saturday. Many health workers and other frontline workers in Ituri province have also go
By Emily Green MEXICO CITY, July 18 (Reuters) – Mexico’s health and agricultural ministries announced they are investigating a large outbreak of a foodborne illness in the U.S. linked to iceberg lettuce grown in Mexico and sold at Taco Bell. Cofepris, Mexico’s sanitary regulator, and Senasica, the c
By Nancy Lapid July 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members age 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness. But many medical professionals warn it might do noth
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) — The abortion debate in America is putting lives of women thousands of miles away at risk, particularly in Africa. For decades, U.S. anti-abortion groups have lobbied for more restrictions on abortion at home and abroad. This year, the Trump administration delivered new momentum
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) — For decades, U.S. anti-abortion groups have lobbied domestically and abroad for restricting access to abortion. In the U.S., their biggest success was the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Now, the Trump administration is delivering new momentum to the movement exporting “family values”
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah revoked another campus license on Friday for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, marking a major victory in the hotel heiress’ yearslong effort to get the school shut down. The Utah Department of Health and Human Services’ decision cit
NEW YORK (AP) — A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in New York City has claimed its first life, health officials said Friday. Officials didn’t release additional information about the person’s identity, age or details on when and how they fell ill. Investigators are
