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J&J must pay $15 million to a man who claims talcum powder caused his cancer
Johnson & Johnson jurors ruled Tuesday that the company must pay $15 million to a Connecticut resident who claims he developed mesothelioma, a rare form
GSK sued Moderna for infringement of US patent rights for COVID and RSV vaccines
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sued Moderna in a US federal court in Delaware, accusing the company of infringing GSK’s patent rights to GSK’s information RNA technology
UnitedHealth’s medical spending rose sharply in the third quarter
UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday reported a sharp rise in health care costs in the third quarter as it struggled to cope with declining government reimbursements
Bayer applies for EU registration for a drug to relieve menopause symptoms
Bayer on Tuesday said it has applied to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for marketing authorisation for its menopause symptom relief drug elinzanetant. A third
UK to investigate use of weight loss drug to get people back to work
The UK will examine whether an Eli Lilly weight-loss drug could put people back to work and help tackle the high levels of chronic illness
Pfizer and BioNTech win bid to invalidate CureVac’s COVID vaccine patents in UK
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech won their bid to invalidate CureVac’s COVID vaccine patents in the High Court in London. Pfizer and BioNTech had filed
Novavax receives EU authorisation for updated COVID vaccine targeting the JN.1 strain
European Commission authorises Novavax The company said Wednesday it has updated its COVID-19 vaccine targeting the JN.1 strain of coronavirus in the region. The authorisation
Australia and New Zealand are preparing for the looming bird flu threat
Australia and New Zealand are preparing for the emergence of a devastating strain of bird flu by tightening biosecurity measures on farms, testing shorebirds for
J&J halts last-stage study of bladder cancer drug
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it was halting a final-stage study of its experimental drug to treat a type of bladder cancer because the
Zealand, Boehringer receive FDA breakthrough status for treatment of fatty liver dystrophy
Danish Zealand Pharma and German partner Boehringer Ingelheim have won the US Food and Drug Administration’s Breakthrough Therapy competition to review their experimental weight-loss drug