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Roche oral drug shown to keep breast cancer at bay, boosting shares

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Roche's experimental oral drug giredestrant has been shown to cut the risk of recurrence of a common form of breast cancer after surgery, boosting the company's shares and underpinning its traditional credentials in oncology. The Swiss drugmaker said on ...
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First doses of HIV prevention drug lenacapavir delivered to Zambia, Eswatini

By Daphne Psaledakis, Simon Lewis and Elias Biryabarema WASHINGTON (Reuters) -About 1,000 doses of Gilead Sciences Inc's drug lenacapavir were delivered to Zambia and Eswatini last Thursday, U.S. and company officials said, the first delivery under a U.S. scheme to supply the HIV prevention drug ...
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Medtronic beats second-quarter estimates on strength in heart devices segment

(Reuters) -Medical device maker Medtronic topped Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for its heart disease and diabetes devices, sending its shares up nearly 4% before the bell. Investor expectations for medical device makers have remained high ...
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Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions

BELEM, Brazil (AP) - Global efforts to curb emissions of the potent but short-lived heat-trapping gas methane are doing about as poorly as the more prevalent carbon dioxide, but there's hope for the next five years, U.N. officials said Monday. Methane emissions can be a ...
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Lawsuit filed over 2 deaths in January air ambulance crash in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The families of two of the eight people killed earlier this year when an air ambulance crashed in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming the medical air transport company and others negligently caused their deaths. The wrongful death case was filed ...
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Illinois quick hits: Elections board considers primary election petition objections

Elections board considers primary election petition objections Gov. J.B. Pritzker has one challenger in the Democratic Party's gubernatorial primary. ...
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Eli Lilly weight-loss drug appears to suppress binge-eating signal, small study finds

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Researchers monitoring the brain activity of a patient with a severe binge-eating problem reported that Eli Lilly's GLP-1 weight-loss drug appeared to temporarily suppress food-craving signals in the "reward center" of the brain. These are the first direct measurements of brain ...
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Novo Holdings to sell 7.8% stake in UK’s Convatec, bookrunner says

(Reuters) -Novo Holdings, which controls obesity drugmaker Novo Nordisk, will sell 155 million shares, or about 7.8% of its stake, in British medical products maker Convatec Group, a bookrunner for the offering said on Monday. (Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi ...
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NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says

NEW YORK (AP) - Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health's funding cuts, according to a new report. Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including ...
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Illinois quick hits: Armed robbery charges after incident at Senate President’s office

Armed robbery charges after incident at Senate President's office A Chicago man has been charged with armed robbery after an incident at the Oak Park office of Illinois Senate ...
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Illinois truckers back federal pause on non-domiciled CDLs, hope state follows suit

(The Center Square) - Illinois truckers are applauding a federal rule and hope the state enforces a pause on non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses (CDLs), saying it protects American jobs and restores trust in licensing. ...
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J&J to buy cancer therapy developer Halda Therapeutics for $3.05 billion

(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it would buy privately held Halda Therapeutics for $3.05 billion in cash, expanding the medtech conglomerate's presence in solid tumors and prostate cancer treatments. This follows J&J's $14.6 billion acquisition of neurological drug maker Intra-Cellular Therapies in January. ...
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