BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference on Wednesday. The task force was set up on the heels of a cooperation agreement signed in June last…
By Brendan Pierson and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) -All three of the judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that will hear the Biden administration’s appeal to keep the abortion pill mifepristone on the market are staunchly conservative, with a record of opposing abortion rights. Here is a look at their records. Jennifer…
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -North Carolina Republican lawmakers overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor to enact a law on Tuesday that cuts the window for most abortions in the southern state from 20 to 12 weeks. The law bans elective abortions after the first trimester, except in cases of rape, incest, life-limiting fetal…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Wednesday will hear the Biden administration’s bid to overturn a Texas judge’s order that, if allowed to take effect, would make the abortion drug mifepristone illegal. However the 5th Circuit rules, the case will likely continue for months or…
By David Carnevali NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are scrambling to assess the fallout of a U.S. regulatory challenge against Amgen Inc’s proposed $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics Plc, with some fearing a spillover to other big deals in the drug sector. While investors are accustomed to regulators under U.S. President Joe Biden citing…
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former CEO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were on Tuesday ordered to pay $452 million to victims of the blood-testing startup’s fraud, and an appeals court also denied Holmes’ request to remain out of prison while challenging her conviction. Holmes, who rose to fame after claiming Theranos’ small…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to meet with the makers of the life-saving medication naloxone used to reverse opioid overdoses, in an effort to increase access and reduce cost, a spokesperson for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said. ONDCP Director Dr. Rahul Gupta “plans to have conversations with…
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Investigative journalist Oleksandr Tsakhniv spent much of his professional life trying to uncover corruption in Ukraine’s eastern hinterlands where he lived and worked. He was killed in March, aged 37, fighting Russian forces near Bakhmut. Now, his employer says his death could have an impact on the local fight…
By Julia Harte (Reuters) – South Carolina’s state House on Tuesday began a days-long debate over a bill to ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, while state lawmakers in North Carolina and Nebraska took up separate legislation to restrict abortion in those states. In North Carolina, the Republican-controlled state legislature voted to override…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the emergency use of a bird flu vaccine to protect the California condor, a critically endangered and magnificent animal that has already bounced back once from the brink of extinction. After finding a California condor dead from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in…
