The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday extended for the second time its review of Amicus Therapeutics Inc's experimental combination therapy to treat a muscle disorder called Pompe disease.
U.S. officials are working on a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, but until one is available people should exercise caution, especially seniors and parents of young children, the nation's top infectious disease official said.
Ethiopia's Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday, warning that many deaths were probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases.
Hong Kong said on Friday that children aged 5 to 11 would be able to receive the paediatric formulation of the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Nov. 2, part of broader measures to boost vaccination uptake in the financial hub.
Demand for AbbVie Inc's Botox anti-wrinkle injection and the popular facial filler Juvederm would be hit well into the next year by inflation and low consumer confidence, the company said on Friday.
British poultry producers will be able to slaughter Christmas turkeys early, freeze and then defrost them but still sell the meat as fresh as the country deals with its worst ever bird flu outbreak, the country's farm ministry announced on Friday.
Generic drugmaker Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd reported a 12.2% rise in second-quarter profit on Friday, helped by the launch of the generic version of a popular cancer drug in its key North American market.
Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday.
A European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee on Friday recommended adding heavy menstrual bleeding to the list of side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna , as well as Pfizer and its partner BioNTech .
In what is believed to be a world first, China's commerical capital of Shanghai this week introduced a new type of COVID-19 vaccine that is inhaled rather than administered via injection.
