LATEST NEWS FROM sectors-and-industries - healthcare
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Germany's Merkel weakened by fall of long-serving ally
German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an unexpected blow to her authority on Tuesday when her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamen...
FUNDS
As China builds biotech sector, cash floods U.S. startups
For three whirlwind days in June, U.S. scientist Zhi Hong went shopping at the Boston Bio Conference to find drugs to fill the pipeline of his two-week-old drug company. ...
HEALTHCARE
AstraZeneca gets FDA breakthrough therapy label for asthma treatment
AstraZeneca Plc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted a breakthrough therapy label for its drug to treat a type of severe asthma, potentially speeding...
HEALTHCARE
COLUMN-Commentary: Covering the world, paralyzed from the shoulders down
Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front-line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a m...
HEALTHCARE
Australia's CSL posts near 30 pct profit rise as U.S. drug sales spike
Australian biotherapeutics company CSL Ltd reported a near 30 percent rise in annual net profit on Wednesday, thanks to strong drug sales in the United States. CSL posted...
FUNDS
EU mergers and takeovers (July 23)
The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS -- Private equity f...
HEALTHCARE
Lawmakers urge reform in Northern Ireland as more women seek abortions abroad
By Lin Taylor LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British and Irish parliamentarians have called for "urgent" reform to Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion l...
HEALTHCARE
FDA staff raises efficacy doubts on GSK's lung disease treatment
U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers have raised doubts over the effectiveness of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's drug Nucala in treating a disease that limits airflow to the...
HEALTHCARE
UPDATE 2-Philips says sales growth to improve after China causes Q2 miss
Temporary problems in China led to disappointing second quarter sales at Dutch healthcare technology company Philips but sales growth is expected to strengthen in the second hal...
HEALTHCARE