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China’s Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group beats net profit expectations in 2025

SHANGHAI, March 29 (Reuters) - China's Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group, a Roche partner, reported a 27% rise in annual profit on Sunday, beating market expectations and boosted by income from innovative medicines and business development deals. The specialist in oncology, anti-infective, central nervous system disease, metabolic ...
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California leads push to add key vitamin to corn tortillas, aimed at reducing Latino birth defects

Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers might finally avoid the same pain. In January, California became the first state to require food makers to add folic ...
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Eli Lilly to sign $2 billion deal for AI drug development with Hong Kong’s Insilico Medicine, FT says

March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly will sign a $2 billion deal with Hong Kong-listed biotech Insilico Medicine, which uses artificial intelligence for drug discovery, to develop products and market a diabetes drug, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Lilly will acquire exclusive ...
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Incyte’s skin disease drug shows long-term symptom relief in late-stage trials

March 28 (Reuters) - Incyte said on Saturday its experimental skin disease drug showed long-term reduction of symptoms in two late-stage trials. The company tested the drug, povorcitinib, in patients with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa, a chronic skin disease that causes painful lumps, ...
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EU regulator backs Sanofi’s injectable version of blood cancer drug

March 27 (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi said on Friday the European Medicines Agency has recommended the approval of a subcutaneous version of its blood cancer drug administered through an on-body injector. Here are the details from the company's statement: * EMA's ...
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British plan to legalise assisted dying falters in parliamentary tug-of-war

By Sarah Young and Elizabeth Piper LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old Suzie Jee was elated when Britain's lower house of parliament voted to legalise assisted dying nine months ago. Suffering from incurable bone cancer, she believed that at some point she would be able ...
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Once a luxury for moms, doula care is going mainstream

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Shaquoiya Stewart held one of her 6-month-old twins on her lap while Shanille Bowens held the other. As the women caught up and the babies stared at each other quietly, Bowens came around to the key question she asks all ...
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Iterum seeks court-led dissolution amid cash crisis, inability to raise funds

March 27 (Reuters) - Iterum Therapeutics said on Friday it has asked Ireland's High Court to wind up the company after a prolonged cash crunch and struggle to raise funds. Shares of the company, which was placed into provisional liquidation, were down more than 70% ...
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Colgate must face lawsuits over safety of mouth rinse for young children

By Jonathan Stempel March 27 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday said Colgate-Palmolive must face two lawsuits claiming its packaging for mouth rinse misleads parents into believing children under 6 can use the products safely. The judge dismissed a similar lawsuit concerning Colgate toothpaste. Consumers ...
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Kailera Therapeutics files for US IPO

March 27 (Reuters) - Kailera Therapeutics filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest biotech company looking to tap investor appetite as listings in the space gather momentum. U.S. companies have pushed on with their IPO plans even as the conflict ...
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Italy’s top court bars separate hiring for abortion doctors in Sicily

By Angelo Amante ROME, March 27 (Reuters) - Italy's Constitutional Court has barred Sicily from advertising jobs reserved for health workers willing to perform abortions, but said on Friday the southern region could find alternative ways to safeguard access to the service. Faced with high refusal ...
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Illinois Quick Hits: Chicago proposal would ban ice-related towing fees

(TheCenter Square) - A Chicago alderman has introduced legislation that would prevent the Department of Streets and Sanitation and private towing companies from collecting fees if the tow was made necessary by federal immigration enforcement actions. ...
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