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Flush with cash, Pfizer buys Global Blood Therapeutics in $5.4 billion deal

By Mrinalika Roy and Michael Erman (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc on Monday agreed to pay $5.4 billion in ca...

8th August, 2022

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Delay in issuing post-Brexit ID cards puts Portugal’s border agency under spotlight

By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s border agency SEF has faced criticism for delays in...

8th August, 2022

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Analysis: Democrats score big wins on climate, drugs with $430 billion U.S. Senate bill

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats scored a major policy victory when the U.S. Senate...

8th August, 2022

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Pope Francis, slowing down as he ages, appoints personal medical assistant

By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Pope Francis has appointed a nurse from the Vatican’s health services...

4th August, 2022

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Consortium to buy S.Africa hospitals firm Mediclinic for $4.49 billion

(Reuters) -South Africa’s Remgro Ltd said on Thursday it will buy hospital chain operator Mediclinic...

4th August, 2022

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Russia’s Chubais in intensive care with rare immune disorder – close sources

LONDON (Reuters) -Anatoly Chubais, the former privatisation tsar of post-Soviet Russia who quit his...

1st August, 2022

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Oldest patient yet cured of HIV after stem cell transplant – researchers

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a...

27th July, 2022

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Britain’s health service facing worst staffing crisis, say lawmakers

By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) is facing i...

25th July, 2022

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Biden says he is ‘doing well,’ working after testing positive for COVID

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden, the oldest person...

22nd July, 2022

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Biden says he is ‘doing well,’ working after testing positive for COVID

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden, the oldest person...

22nd July, 2022

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AstraZeneca to buy biotech firm TeneoTwo for up to $1.27 billion

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca agreed to acquire biotechnology firm TeneoTwo Inc in a deal worth up to $1.27...

5th July, 2022

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Afghanistan seeks help for earthquake survivors as aftershock kills five

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan lacks the medical supplies to treat those inju...

24th June, 2022