Public hospitals in Uganda have been hit by shortages of essential medicines and supplies needed for emergency care, a health workers' association said, further hurting services at facilities already struggling from years of neglect.
Sanofi on Wednesday said it had made arrangements for additional warehouse capacity in Britain to stockpile drugs, as it makes contingency plans for a potential no-deal over Brexit negotiations.
Wall Street is trying to figure out whether the U.S. insurance industry will bear any costs from a record $4.69 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson awarded to customers and their families who claimed that asbestos-contaminated talc caused ovarian cancer.
(Reuters Health) - Opioid addicts with criminal histories may be less likely to die of overdoses or other causes during periods when they're in methadone treatment programs, a Canadian study suggests.
(Reuters Health) - Female soccer players may be more likely to experience brain damage from heading the ball than male athletes, a U.S. study suggests.
French drugmaker Sanofi has been making drug-shortage contingency plans for more than a year to prepare for Britain and the European Union failing to reach a Brexit transition deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a source.
More than 100 people said they had fallen sick after eating at a Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc restaurant in Ohio, sending shares of the burrito chain down as much as 9 percent on Tuesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Japan-based Shionogi & Co Ltd's treatment for low blood-platelet count or thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic liver disease.
The number of people dying from heatwaves is likely to rise sharply in some regions by 2080 if policymakers fail to take mitigating steps in climate and health policies, according to the results of a study on Tuesday.
