Healthcare

COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US...
April 07, 2023 03:20 AM AEST | By ReutersBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cas...

Bayer defeats Merck in lawsuit over talc liabilities
April 04, 2023 07:53 AM AEST | By ReutersBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A Delaware judge on Monday dismissed Merck & Co's lawsuit seeking to hold Bayer AG responsible for more talc-relat...

WHO revises COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for Omicron-era
March 29, 2023 01:53 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healt...

US colleges face loss of racial diversity if race-conscious admissio...
March 28, 2023 03:08 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - If the U.S. Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selec...

World Bank approves new Costa Rican loan for natural disasters
March 24, 2023 11:09 AM AEDT | By ReutersSAN JOSE (Reuters) - The World Bank approved a $160 million loan for Costa Rica on Thursday aimed at strengthening its ability to manage risks linked...

Malawians fear storm Freddy could make deadliest cholera outbreak wo...
March 18, 2023 03:54 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Eldson Chagara BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Despite her fears, Fyness Afiki joined other women drawing dirty water from a well in Malawi's second-biggest c...

Burundi declares poliovirus outbreak, WHO says
March 17, 2023 09:49 PM AEDT | By ReutersJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Health officials in Burundi on Friday declared an outbreak of circulating poliovirus after confirming eight cases, the first s...

Exodus of healthcare workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says
March 14, 2023 11:37 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Poorer countries are increasingly losing healthcare workers to wealthier ones as the latter seek to shore up their ow...

FDA mandates breast density information with mammography results
March 10, 2023 03:39 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday all mammography facilities in the country will be required to notify patients about...

Medecins Sans Frontieres shuts Haiti hospital amid gang violence
March 09, 2023 08:12 AM AEDT | By ReutersPORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has temporarily closed its hospital in Cite Soleil, in Haiti's capital, afte...

Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages
March 07, 2023 09:41 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mounta...

Europe will lose out on medical innovation if draft EU reforms pass,...
March 03, 2023 10:00 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will lose out to countries like the U.S. and Japan on new medical research, trials and treatments unless draf...

Viatris warns it will stop selling essential drugs in UK without cha...
March 03, 2023 08:47 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Maggie Fick and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker Viatris Inc warned on Thursday that it will stop selling some essential medicines in th...

Late Pope Benedict's top aide to be given a new job
March 03, 2023 03:22 AM AEDT | By ReutersROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis will decide on a new role for German Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, a critic of the pontiff who was the long-term senior ai...

GSK spinoff Haleon has no deals on immediate horizon
March 02, 2023 10:13 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Natalie Grover and Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer healthcare group Haleon's Chief Executive Brian McNamara said on Thursday he does not ex...

Novavax sinks on concerns about COVID vaccine maker's prospects
March 02, 2023 06:07 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Natalie Grover and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) - Novavax Inc's shares plunged to a three-year low on Wednesday, a day after the COVID-19 vaccine maker...

Novavax shares slump premarket on worries over prospects
March 01, 2023 10:44 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Bhanvi Satija and Natalie Grover (Reuters) - Novavax Inc's shares plunged more than 24% in U.S. premarket trading on Wednesday, a day after the COV...

Bayer sees lower 2023 operating profit on cost inflation
February 28, 2023 05:53 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Agriculture and pharmaceuticals company Bayer said operating earnings would likely decline in 2023, hurt by hig...

Court revives challenge to New York law protecting workers who get a...
February 28, 2023 03:53 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center's challenge to a New York state law tha...

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya
February 27, 2023 02:11 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Ayenat Mersie DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somal...
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