 | | | | Canada isproposing that written health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes, the first country in the world to do so,a federal minister said on Friday. | | | | | | U.S. health officials are working to expand capabilities to test for monkeypox beyond a narrow group of public health labs, heeding calls from infectious disease experts who say testing for the virus needs to become part of routine care. | | | | | | U.S. health regulators rejected a request to remove popular anti-baldness pill Propecia and its generic versions from the market, but for the first time required patient notification about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the drug. | | | | | | Bluebird bio's treatment for a rare blood disorder received backing from advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday, in a vote of confidence in gene therapies and bolstering the company beset by regulatory setbacks. | | | | | | Canada's Liberal government will propose updating the country's tobacco products regulations to require written health warnings printed on individual cigarette tubes, Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett said on Friday. | | | | | | Days after lifting its months-long lockdown, Shanghai will test most of its residents this weekend, while travellers to the United States will no longer need to present a pre-departure COVID-19 international air test from Sunday. | | | | | | French drugmaker Valneva said on Friday it had proposed a remediation plan after receiving the European Commission's notice of intent to terminate the advance purchase agreement for its inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate. | | | | | | Delta Air Lines Inc will start transporting 3.2 million bottles of Kendamil baby formula on June 20, the White House said on Friday in announcing the sixth shipment of overseas formula to help quell a U.S. shortage. | | | | | | Available data suggest that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines do not cause an absence of menstruation, the European Union's health regulator concluded on Friday. | | | | | | Russia has registered a total of 812,127 COVID-related deaths since the start of the pandemic in Russia in April 2020, Reuters calculations based on new data from the Rosstat state statistics service showed on Friday. | | | | | |
