5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (317+ words) Sept 8 (Reuters) – Shares of Dyne Therapeutics and Sarepta slumped on Tuesday after Novartis’ treatment for a muscle-wasting disorder failed in a trial, fueling investor concerns ​about the prospects of similar therapies for the tough-to-treat ‌rare disease. Dyne’s stock led declines…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (128+ words) PARIS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - French Health Minister ​Stephanie Rist ‌said on Friday that there were around ‌7,000 ​excess ⁠deaths recorded ⁠during the blistering heatwaves that hit the ​country this summer as ⁠of ⁠late July, ​adding that final ​data will... France saw 7,000 excess…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (348+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s top human rights body urged the police on Friday to investigate several new outbreaks of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship programme to provide ​free meals to students, which made 2,000 people sick this ‌week....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (734+ words) DAKAR, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are using anonymised mobile-phone data to map population movements and identify areas where the virus could spread next, according to the World Health Organisation and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (206+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Heatwaves from June 18 through August 16 caused 2,935 excess deaths in Belgium, or 22.6% ​excess mortality, public health body ‌Sciensano said in a report on Thursday. • From June 18 through July 3, Belgium recorded its highest excess mortality, with 2,035 additional deaths, or…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (219+ words) Sept 3 (Reuters) – Shares of Australia’s Regis Healthcare plunged nearly 35% on Thursday after the company said an increase in ​the government’s funding rate for residential ‌aged care fell well short of inflation across the sector and economy. • The Department of Health,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (257+ words) Sept 1 (Reuters) – Almost 2,150 people are thought to have died from heat-related causes in Spain in August, official data showed on Tuesday, ​after record-breaking heatwaves engulfed Western Europe during ‌the summer. • Data on the Health Ministry’s daily mortality monitoring system MoMo…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (270+ words) Sept 1 (Reuters) – Britain’s medicines regulator on Tuesday suspended the use and sale of Amgen’s rare-disease drug, Tavneos, to new patients, saying the main study ​supporting its approval was unreliable. • The drug, ‌sold as Avacopan Vifor in Britain by CSL Vifor,…...