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GSK shares fall as narrow approval of blood cancer drug limits US relaunch

By Bhanvi Satija LONDON (Reuters) -GSK’s London-listed shares fell nearly 2% on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved only one of two treatment combinations with the British firm’s blood cancer drug, limiting the scope of its return to the U.S. market. The drug, ...
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Indonesia moves residents near site contaminated with Caesium 137, task force says

JAKARTA (Reuters) -The Indonesian government has started relocating residents living in areas surrounding the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate, a site found to have been contaminated with radioactive Caesium-137, a spokesman told Reuters on Friday. The effort was initiated after Indonesia detected high levels of Caesium-137, ...
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Girl shot in Minneapolis church returns home from the hospital

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a deadly attack at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August was released from the hospital Thursday and greeted with cheers as the police chief paraded her around town in a stretch ...
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UK’s CVS Group plans Main Market move, approves near $27 million buyback

(Reuters) -British veterinary services provider CVS Group said it plans to move its listing from the Alternative Investment Market to the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market, while also approving a new 20 million pound ($26.84 million) share buyback. The board believes the Main Market listing would ...
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Sanofi profits beat forecasts despite ‘negative buzz’ around vaccines

By Bhanvi Satija LONDON (Reuters) -Sanofi on Friday reported third-quarter profit that beat forecasts, boosted by demand for blockbuster asthma drug Dupixent, but the French company flagged lower vaccination rates partly due to a “negative buzz” around vaccines. Sanofi’s sales of its flu and COVID vaccines ...
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Australia says H5 bird flu suspected in sub-Antarctic island

CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of elephant seals. “At this stage it is not a confirmed detection ...
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Inhibrx shares surge after bone cancer drug slows disease progression in trial

(Reuters) -Inhibrx Biosciences said on Thursday its experimental drug helped slow the progression of a rare and aggressive bone cancer in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares surging over 70% in extended trading. In the 206-patient study, the drug, ozekibart, extended the time patients lived ...
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Mexican ag minister to discuss with US counterpart opening border to cattle amid screwworm outbreak

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s agriculture minister will travel to Washington next week with the aim of reaching an agreement on the reopening of the border to Mexican cattle amid an outbreak of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday. Mexican Agriculture Minister ...
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US FDA approve GSK’s blood cancer treatment

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved British drugmaker GSK’s blood cancer drug, Blenrep, in one combination regimen, the company said on Thursday, clearing the way for its return to the market nearly three years after it was withdrawn. The FDA approved Blenrep ...
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California union proposes taxing billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major union announced a proposal Thursday to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people. Proponents, including the Service Employees International Union, hope to place the statewide ...
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Some furloughed workers will return to manage health insurance open enrollment as shutdown drags on

NEW YORK (AP) — The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment, according to an agency spokesperson. The recall to duty amid the more than three-week-long government shutdown ...
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England’s resident doctors to strike for six days in November

LONDON (Reuters) -Resident doctors in England will go on strike next month, their trade union said on Thursday, as part of escalating industrial action over job insecurity and pay erosion. The strike action, which will take place between November 14 to 19, follows failed ...
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