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AstraZeneca’s Datroway extends survival in aggressive breast cancer

By Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s new breast cancer drug helped significantly extend survival in some patients in a late-stage trial, marking a potential breakthrough in one of the hardest-to-treat forms of the disease. Patients with triple-negative breast cancer who were given the drug, ...
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Gilead’s Trodelvy cuts breast cancer risk by 38% in trial

By Christy Santhosh (Reuters) -Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy lowered the risk of disease progression in an aggressive type of breast cancer by 38% when used as an initial treatment, according to trial results presented on Sunday. The trial compared Trodelvy to a standard treatment of chemotherapy in ...
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Namibia’s health ministry declares outbreak of Mpox in Swakopmund

(Corrects to show ministry post was on Facebook, not X) (Reuters) -Namibia’s ministry of health and social services on Sunday declared an outbreak of Mpox in the city of Swakopmund. “Surveillance, contact tracing, and response teams have been activated to contain the spread,” the ministry ...
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AstraZeneca’s Enhertu shows promise in early-stage breast cancer treatment

By Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s drug Enhertu has shown strong results in two pivotal studies in the early stage of a certain type of breast cancer, according to data announced on Saturday. The findings from both trials, presented at the European Society for ...
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Astellas-Pfizer’s combination therapy halves risk of death in bladder cancer patients

(Reuters) -Pfizer and Japanese firm Astellas’ drug Padcev, combined with Merck’s Keytruda, lowered the risk of tumor recurrence, progression or death in patients suffering from a type of bladder cancer, the companies said on Saturday. The late-stage trial studied patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) ...
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Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with medications, he offers tunes on ...
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BillionToOne targets over $2 billion valuation in US IPO

(Reuters) -Molecular diagnostics firm BillionToOne said on Friday it was aiming at a valuation of up to $2.42 billion in its U.S. initial public offering. The Menlo Park, California-based company is looking to raise up to $211.5 million in its IPO by offering 3.8 ...
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US FDA expands use of Amgen, AstraZeneca’s drug for sinus infection

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Amgen and AstraZeneca’s drug for a type of chronic sinus infection, the drugmakers said on Friday. The approval expands the use of the drug, Tezspire, as an add-on maintenance treatment of inadequately controlled chronic rhinosinusitis with ...
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Boston Scientific boosts chronic pain therapy portfolio with Nalu deal

(Reuters) -Medical device maker Boston Scientific said on Friday it will buy the remaining equity in privately held Nalu Medical for about $533 million in cash, expanding its portfolio of treatments for chronic pain. Boston Scientific has been a strategic investor in Carlsbad, California-based Nalu ...
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Health Rounds: Scientists find way to make breast cancer drug work better for younger women

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Researchers appear to have found a solution for breast cancer patients who do not respond well enough to the common treatment tamoxifen, ...
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Rani Therapeutics signs up to $1.09 billion licensing deal with Japan’s Chugai Pharma

(Reuters) -Rani Therapeutics on Friday announced a licensing deal to develop and sell an oral version of Chugai Pharmaceutical’s experimental antibody, with options to expand to five additional drugs, potentially valuing the deal at $1.09 billion. Shares of San Jose-based Rani more than doubled in ...
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Lumpy skin cases in French cattle spread near Spanish border

PARIS (Reuters) -More outbreaks of the highly contagious lumpy skin disease have been detected in cattle in southwestern France near the Spanish border, the agriculture ministry said ahead of a ministerial visit to one of the latest affected regions on Friday. France is struggling to ...
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