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Aardvark pauses late-stage trial testing rare disease treatment

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Aardvark Therapeutics is voluntarily pausing its late-stage trial testing its experimental treatment for a type of rare genetic disease after it found heart-related side effects in healthy volunteers, the company said on Friday. The company said it decided to pause the ...
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Chile denies onboard care by Chinese medical ship as US pressure mounts

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Chile denied permission for a Chinese hospital ship to provide medical services onboard, saying the vessel lacked authorization to treat local residents, a decision that came amid heightened pressure from the U.S. over a proposed undersea cable project. ...
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Microsoft hit with IL biometric class action over Teams call transcriptions

Microsoft has been hit with a class action lawsuit under Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law, potentially worth many millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, accusing the company of improperly recording users' voices when they are using the companies Teams videoconferencing app. ...
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Physicians assistants leave for Iowa due to licensing wait times in Illinois

(The Center Square) - State lawmakers say physician assistants are leaving for Iowa because it takes so long to get licensed in Illinois. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional ...
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Ascendis wins U.S. approval for therapy for children with dwarfism

Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Ascendis Pharma's once-weekly therapy for children with a rare genetic disorder that causes dwarfism, the company said. (Reporting by Sahil Pandey and Puyaan Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid) Brought ...
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Bird flu devastates 7.4 million Pennsylvania chickens in a month

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss that veterinarians and industry members suspect may be linked to an unusually cold winter. Infections of flocks raised to ...
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Illinois quick hits: Chicago debt deal pushes payments down road

Chicago debt deal pushes payments down road Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is reportedly structuring the city's debt with a deal that makes no payments for the next three-plus years. ...
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US surpasses 1,000 measles cases for the 3rd time in 26 years: CDC

(NEW YORK) -- Measles cases have topped 1,000 in the United States for the third time in 26 years.At least 154 new measles cases have been confirmed in the last week for a total of 1,136, according to updated data from the Centers for ...
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Target to stop selling cereals with certified synthetic colors by end of May

NEW YORK (AP) - Target will stop selling its entire assortment of cereal with certified synthetic colors by the end of May. The move, announced Friday, underscores the acknowledgment that American consumers and the U.S. government under President Donald Trump are paying attention to what ...
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New sleeping sickness pill gets nod, paving the way for use in Africa

NEW YORK (AP) - European drug regulators on Friday endorsed a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease. A European Medicines Agency committee gave its nod to acoziborole, made by Sanofi. The ...
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Solventum beats quarterly estimates on strong demand for surgical products

Feb 26 (Reuters) - Medical device maker Solventum on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter, helped by strong demand for its wound care and sterilization products. The Minnesota-based company is one of the largest providers of sterilization devices, wound dressings, medical tape ...
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Iranian agents obstructed care at hospitals packed with wounded protesters

BEIRUT (AP) - As wounded anti-government protesters poured into an Iranian hospital during last month's crackdown, a young doctor hurried to the emergency room to help treat a man in his 40s who had been shot in the head at close range. When the ...
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