/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/XGWS6OYYDBKFLFL4QNEZLWTLJQ.jpg "AstraZeneca, AI biologics firm Absci tie up on cancer drug")
The AstraZeneca logo is pictured outside the AstraZeneca office building in Brussels as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign, Belgium, January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Dec 3 (Reuters) – Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has signed a deal worth up to $247 million with U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) biologics firm …
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Nov 29 (Reuters) – U.S. babies born in 2022 gained roughly a year in life expectancy compared with babies born a year earlier, federal data showed on Wednesday, marking progress after two consecutive years of declines largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth for 2022 newborns was 77.5 years, up from 76.4 …
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SHANGHAI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the government for disease data, said no unusual or novel pathogens had been detected. China is grappling with a spike in respiratory illnesses as it enters …
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[1/6]A dog crosses a road on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 13, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Acquire Licensing Rights NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Two Indian cities joined New Delhi to be among the world’s worst 10 for pollution on Monday morning, with smoke heavy in the air a day after revellers …
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[1/9]A girl lights fireworks to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Acquire Licensing Rights NEW DELHI, Nov 12 (Reuters) – A toxic haze began to circulate in New Delhi on Sunday as people in the city of 20 million, which has struggled with heavy pollution …
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Nov 9 (Reuters) – Surgeons in New York have performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human, they announced on Thursday, an accomplishment being hailed as a breakthrough even though the patient has not regained sight in the eye. In the six months since the surgery, performed during a partial face transplant, the grafted eye …
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/OCR436K2G5IDNAVLK47U3V7CZI.jpg "Rite Aid files for bankruptcy faced with high debt, opioid lawsuits")
Oct 16 (Reuters) – Debt-laden U.S. drugstore chain Rite Aid (RAD.N) filed for bankruptcy protection late on Sunday and said it would close underperforming stores, sell its pharmacy benefit company Elixir and resolve lawsuits over its sale of addictive opioid medications. Rite Aid, one of the largest U.S. pharmacy retailers, stumbled under its high debt, …
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/3OYVC5DWIJIAHDXTL2E6AH6KRI.jpg "Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Kariko and Weissman, pioneers of COVID vaccine")
Kariko and Weissman were pioneers of COVID-19 vaccines Scientists win first 2023 Nobel prize and $1 million Pair lauded for helping save millions of lives STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way …