 | | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking at ways to allow overseas manufacturers of baby formula to keep selling in the country beyond the current shortage, the health regulator said on Wednesday. | | | | | | More than half of U.S. women who received a uterus through a transplant went on to have successful pregnancies, a new study shows. | | | | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it authorized state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 pill Paxlovid to eligible patients, in a bid to improve access to the treatment. | | | | | | Passengers boarding Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings ships won't have to take COVID-19 tests from next month unless required by local law, the U.S. cruise operator said on Wednesday as the crucial summer sailing season gathers steam. | | | | | | Singapore has confirmed its first local case of monkeypox, the health ministry said late on Wednesday. | | | | | | World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war and climate change threatening starvation and mass migration on an "unprecedented scale" this year, according to U.N. agencies. | | | | | | More than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from 58 countries in the current outbreak, the World Health Organization said. | | | | | | Greece reported its first baby death from severe acute hepatitis on Wednesday, the country's national health agency EODY said. | | | | | | Democrats in the U.S. Senate are advancing a deal that would allow the government's Medicare health plan for older and disabled Americans to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, Senate sources said on Wednesday. | | | | | | BioNTech is looking into taking legal steps against CureVac after the latter filed a patent lawsuit against it over its use of mRNA technology, BioNTech said on Wednesday, confirming a report by daily Welt. | | | | | |
