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WHO Urges China to Share Specific Data Regularly on Covid Situation
Date: January 3, 2023
(Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China’s health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the COVID-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections. The agency has asked Chinese officials to share more genetic sequencing data, as well as data on hospitalizations,...
Jeremy Renner, Marvel’s Hawkeye, Has Surgery After Snow Plow Accident
Date: January 3, 2023
(This Jan. 2 story has been refiled to change wording in the second paragraph and remove repeated word in the final paragraph) By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Actor Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” movies, was in critical but stable condition in a Nevada hospital on Monday, a day after suffering a...
Slovak Prime Minister Says 2023 State Budget Will Be Approved in Time
Date: December 21, 2022
(Reuters) – The Slovak parliament will approve the 2023 state budget this week, enabling the government to help people hit by soaring energy prices, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Tuesday. Approving the budget in time appeared unlikely after Heger’s minority centre-right government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament last Thursday. His cabinet has been...
Medical Device Makers Drop Products as EU Law Sows Chaos
Date: December 19, 2022
By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – Nicola Osypka’s German company has been selling medical devices used in surgery on newborn babies in Europe for decades, but new European Union rules have forced her to make tough decisions. Under the regulations designed to prevent another health scandal, such as the one in 2010 involving ruptured breast...
Queues Form at Fever Clinics as China Wrestles With Covid Surge
Date: December 12, 2022
By Eduardo Baptista and Josh Ye BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -People queued outside fever clinics at Chinese hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling an apparatus they used to surveil residents and curtail movement. Three years into the pandemic, China is acting to align...
Roche Shutters Most Trials of Alzheimer’s Drug After Failed Trials
Date: December 1, 2022
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche is closing down most clinical trials of its experimental Alzheimer’s drug gantenerumab after it failed to slow advance of the mind-robbing disease in a pair of large, late-stage studies, the company said on Wednesday. Roche presented full results of twin trials at an Alzheimer’s meeting in...