By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Isolated flare-ups of Ebola may point to a higher risk of transmission via the semen of male survivors than previously thought, undermining hopes of ending West Africa’s deadly outbreak by the end of the year. The World Health Organization’s advice is that all male survivors should be tested three months after the onset of symptoms and then monthly until they know they have no
Staff at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Wednesday of the risks of incorrect dosing of another experimental opioid painkiller, highlighting the agency’s concern about drugs that can be highly addictive. The FDA staff said Collegium Pharmaceuticals Inc’s experimental oral opioid painkiller, to be sold as Xtampza if approved, could be wrongly used as it is designed to be taken after eating to provide maximum relief. Typically, opioid
Acen and Apio Akello of Uganda, who had been joined at the pelvic and hip region, were successfully separated on Thursday, Nationwide Children’s Hospital said. Three-dimensional modeling was used to help the neurosurgeons divide their intertwined spinal cords, said Dr. Gail Besner, chief of pediatric surgery at the hospital. The sisters are the fourth set of conjoined twins the hospital has separated successfully since 1978, it said.
General Electric won U.S. and European antitrust approval to buy Alstom’s power unit on condition that some of the French company’s assets would be sold. Both the U.S. Justice Department and European Union announced on Tuesday that they would approve the 12.4-billion-euro ($13.9 billion) deal on condition that Alstom subsidiary Power Systems Manufacturing would be divested. The unit, which provides aftermarket parts and services for gas turbines, will be sold
Canada’s Concordia Healthcare Corp said it would buy Amdipharm Mercury Ltd from private equity firm Cinven for $1.9 billion, boosting its portfolio of drugs to 200 from 20 and giving it a foothold in overseas markets. Amdipharm Mercury, created with the merger of Mercury Pharma and Amdipharm in 2012, buys off-patent drugs from big pharma companies such as Novartis AG , GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Abbott Laboratories and sells them in
Sierra Leone has recorded four new cases of Ebola in a village on its northern border and will likely see more infections in a further setback to efforts to end an 18-month West African epidemic, a senior health official said on Tuesday. The new cases recorded since the start of the weekend in Sella Kaffta, a village in Kambia District, were all individuals who came into direct contact with a
GE won European approval on Tuesday for the roughly $13.5 billion acquisition, the largest purchase in its history, 16 months after first announcing it. Steve Bolze, the CEO of GE Power & Water, said the company was targeting a close for the deal “as early as possible” in the fourth quarter.
By Jeff Mason and Lucia Mutikani BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies. Obama signed an executive order on sick leave during a flight on Air Force One to Boston, where he spoke at a union event. The
LONDON (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says the world will run out of one of the most effective treatments for snakebites next year, putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk, mostly in developing countries.
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