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 COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US study

COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US...

April 07, 2023 03:20 AM AEST | By Reuters

By 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

Bayer defeats Merck in lawsuit over talc liabilities

April 04, 2023 07:53 AM AEST | By Reuters

By 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

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 admissions banned -study

US colleges face loss of racial diversity if race-conscious admissio...

March 28, 2023 03:08 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

World Bank approves new Costa Rican loan for natural disasters

March 24, 2023 11:09 AM AEDT | By Reuters

SAN 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 worse

Malawians fear storm Freddy could make deadliest cholera outbreak wo...

March 18, 2023 03:54 AM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Burundi declares poliovirus outbreak, WHO says

March 17, 2023 09:49 PM AEDT | By Reuters

JOHANNESBURG (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

Exodus of healthcare workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says

March 14, 2023 11:37 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

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

Medecins Sans Frontieres shuts Haiti hospital amid gang violence

March 09, 2023 08:12 AM AEDT | By Reuters

PORT-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

Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages

March 07, 2023 09:41 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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, Novo Nordisk CEO says

Europe will lose out on medical innovation if draft EU reforms pass,...

March 03, 2023 10:00 AM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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 changes to drug pricing agreement

Viatris warns it will stop selling essential drugs in UK without cha...

March 03, 2023 08:47 AM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Late Pope Benedict's top aide to be given a new job

March 03, 2023 03:22 AM AEDT | By Reuters

ROME (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

GSK spinoff Haleon has no deals on immediate horizon

March 02, 2023 10:13 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Novavax sinks on concerns about COVID vaccine maker's prospects

March 02, 2023 06:07 AM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Novavax shares slump premarket on worries over prospects

March 01, 2023 10:44 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Bayer sees lower 2023 operating profit on cost inflation

February 28, 2023 05:53 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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 abortions

Court revives challenge to New York law protecting workers who get a...

February 28, 2023 03:53 AM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya

February 27, 2023 02:11 PM AEDT | By Reuters

By 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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