Health

Philips on Monday reported second-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations, helped by cost savings from job cuts and insurance gains related to Respironics product liability

British drugmaker GSK said Monday it has agreed to confidentially settle an Illinois lawsuit alleging that the discontinued heartburn drug Zantac causes cancer. It is

The World Health Organisation said on Monday that bird flu vaccine developer Sinergium Biotech will share its data with manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries

A jury found that a specialised formula for premature babies from Abbott Laboratories caused an Illinois girl to develop a dangerous intestinal disease, and ordered

The European Union’s health regulator has recommended expanding the use of GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine to adults aged 50-59 years. The vaccine, called

The Netherlands won EU approval for 2 billion euros in state aid to build a nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes for cancer treatment. The

Britain’s health regulator said on Wednesday it has granted approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 vaccine targeting the JN.1 subspecies for use in infants,

Pfizer the company reported that a gene therapy for haemophilia A significantly reduced the number of annual bleeding episodes in patients with the rare disease

Roche on Thursday raised its full-year profit forecast after beating expectations for the first half of the year, driven by strong demand for new drugs

Local doctors say they have seen 130 suspected cases of mpox, almost all in children and adolescents, in the past four weeks at a nearby