By Patrick Wingrove and Marleen Kaesebier ZURICH/ LONDON, Oct 22 – Swiss drugmaker Roche beat third-quarter sales expectations on Thursday, supported by steady demand for key medicines such as Ocrevus to buy time as it looks abroad to restock a pipeline facing looming patent expiries. Group revenue
WELLINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – New Zealand’s High Court has struck down regulations banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers for adolescents with gender dysphoria, ruling that the measures were made unlawfully and amounted to unjustified discrimination. • Justice Dale La Hood set aside the regu
Oct 21 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Wednesday the US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for its treatment for adults with immunoglobulin A nephropathy, a rare kidney disease that can lead to renal failure. Here are more details: • AstraZeneca said the treatment Ultomiris re
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Sweden’s EQT will buy molecular testing company Qiagen for about €9.6 billion ($10.78 billion), the companies said on Wednesday, ending years of takeover speculation surrounding the Dutch firm. The deal reflects increasing private-equity appetite in the sector, where demand for mo
Oct 22 (Reuters) – Medical device maker Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on Thursday said it was made aware of unauthorized and unlawful access to a subset of company files and two employee email accounts. Here are the details: • Some of the files accessed contained personally identifiable information and
Oct 21 (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Wednesday reported 1,317 measles cases in the state, up 31 cases since its previous update on Monday, as the outbreak of the highly contagious disease continued. • Pennsylvania has confirmed measles cases in 43 counties, with Washington Cou
BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Wednesday it intends to propose the re-listing of Brazil for imports of poultry meat and honey, with member states expected to vote on the measure at the committee’s next meeting. An EU ban on animal products from Brazil took eff
BENGALURU, Oct 21 (Reuters) – India’s food safety regulator issued notices to Nestle India, Zydus Wellness, Abbott Healthcare and others on Wednesday over promotional claims involving products for infants and children that it said breached rules. The action comes days after the regulator proposed ba
By Sriparna Roy Oct 21 (Reuters) – Life sciences firm Danaher is well positioned to benefit as drugmakers increasingly adopt artificial intelligence to develop new medicines, its chief executive said on Wednesday, calling it a major long-term opportunity. Interest in AI-driven drug discovery has sur
By Nancy Lapid Oct 21 (Reuters) – Today we report on the discovery of one of the likely causes of preterm labor and a potential pathway to prevent it. We also cover a study on how cannabis use and the type of product consumed affect anesthesia and sedation needed for medical procedures. IMMUNE-SYSTE
By Patrick Wingrove Oct 21 (Reuters) – Roche said on Wednesday late-stage trial data showed its experimental drug fenebrutinib reduced markers of chronic brain inflammation and delivered broader disease control than comparator treatments in patients with relapsing and primary progressive multiple sc
By Sriparna Roy Oct 21 (Reuters) – Drug distributor Cencora said on Wednesday it would acquire American Oncology Network in a deal valuing the cancer care provider at up to $2.4 billion, deepening its reach in community oncology across the United States. Cencora, which currently owns about 4% of AON
By Padmanabhan Ananthan and Christy Santhosh Oct 21 (Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories cut its 2026 sales growth forecast on Wednesday and said it plans to separate its nutrition business into a publicly traded company, amid costly litigation over its baby formula products. The separation will shed a b
By Marleen Kaesebier and Philip Blenkinsop KUNDL, Austria, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Tucked away in the green foothills of the Austrian Alps, the last fully integrated European penicillin plant faces an uncertain future in the shadow of rising Chinese industrial power. The reason: China is churning out the
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Nigeria reported its first Ebola case in more than a decade on Tuesday, becoming the fourth African country and the most populous yet to be affected by an outbreak that health officials have described as the fastest-spreading on recor
By Sneha S K and Kamal Choudhury Oct 21 (Reuters) – Elevance Health on Wednesday raised its annual profit forecast after posting better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by lower medical costs. Health insurers have been navigating declining membership, as well as rising costs in government-bac
By Nikita Maria Jino and Roshan Thomas SYDNEY, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Australian biotechnology company CSL on Wednesday named GSK executive Deborah Waterhouse as its next chief executive and managing director, effective February, seeking to turn a budding share-price recovery into sustained earnings gro
By Richa Naidu, Dominique Patton and Alexander Marrow LONDON/PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Swiss skincare firm Galderma, Brazilian cosmetics group Natura and beauty giant L’Oreal are testing treatments for consumers worried about facial sagging and volume loss, looking to capitalise on a growing market
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Saluda Medical said on Wednesday it is undertaking a voluntary recall of certain Evoke neurostimulation devices after identifying a manufacturing-related issue, sending shares of the US-based firm to a record low. Here are the details: • The recall relates to certain Evoke Closed
By Sahil Pandey Oct 20 (Reuters) – Intuitive Surgical on Tuesday tightened its 2026 forecast for growth in procedures performed using its da Vinci robotic surgery systems. Procedure growth is a key measure for Intuitive as surgeries performed using its da Vinci systems generate recurring sales of in
By Iñigo Alexander MEXICO CITY, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Water from wells and sinkholes in Mexico’s Yucatan state that residents use for drinking is contaminated with fecal bacteria, according to a Greenpeace report published on Tuesday, which said nearby pig farms and municipal wastewater were likely sou
Oct 20 (Reuters) – The US FDA said on Tuesday it had approved British drugmaker GSK’s hepatitis B drug Hibsago, allowing patients with the liver infection a way to keep the virus under control after stopping treatment. The drug, chemically known as bepirovirsen, is the first FDA-approved antisense o
WARSAW, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Poland’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to allow abortion in case of foetal abnormalities and to decriminalise providing help in getting an abortion, as lawmakers seek to reverse a near-total abortion ban introduced by the previous government. The legislation,
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Nigeria reported its first Ebola case in about a decade on Tuesday after a foreign woman living in the capital tested positive for the viral infection after arriving from Uganda. A senior public health official told a local television
NAIROBI, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Kenya has confirmed a new Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections to nine, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said the latest case was a close family member of the first patient and had already been placed in quarantine. “All nine cases belong t
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, Oct 20 (Reuters) – An outbreak of Newcastle disease in Brazil is unlikely to cause lasting damage to the country’s poultry industry if authorities contain it quickly, analysts said, though uncertainty over trade restrictions, particularly from China, remains a key risk f
Oct 20 (Reuters) – Hims & Hers Health said on Tuesday it launched an online weight management service for men in Germany, marking a deeper investment by the US telehealth firm in one of Europe’s largest healthcare markets. Here are some details: • The service allows patients to complete an online co
Oct 20 (Reuters) – Amgen and AstraZeneca said on Tuesday their asthma drug helped reduce swallowing difficulties and achieved disease remission in 69% of patients with a type of chronic inflammatory disorder of the esophagus. The result builds on August data, when AstraZeneca said the drug met the t
Oct 20 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday its next-generation experimental drug, CagriSema, showed 25% weight loss on average in women with obesity or overweight, according to data analyzed after the completion of a late-stage study. CagriSema, viewed as a successor to the Danish drugmaker’s b
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said on Tuesday that China’s restrictions on poultry imports following an outbreak of Newcastle disease at a turkey farm in Santa Catarina will be limited to that state, easing concerns about broader trade disruptions. Analysts had
