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Slovakia confirmed an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu
Dec 30, 2016News Hour: Slovakia has confirmed an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu virus, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from the country’s agriculture ministry. The disease was... -
Hong Kong confirmed the city’s second case of human bird flu infection this winter
Dec 30, 2016News Hour: Hong Kong authorities on Friday confirmed the city’s second case of human bird flu infection this winter, five days after the death of a first patient who contracted the same H7N9 strain of the... -
Shanghai confirmed a new human case of infection by the H7N9 strain of avian influenza
Dec 30, 2016News Hour: Shanghai’s health authority has confirmed a new human case of infection by the H7N9 strain of avian influenza, the state-owned news agency Xinhua said on Friday. The man diagnosed with H7N9 bird flu is... -
Burger King and Tim Hortons plan to switch to chicken raised without antibiotics
Dec 30, 2016News Hour: Restaurant chains Burger King and Tim Hortons plan to switch to chicken raised without antibiotics considered “critically important” to human medicine, their owner said on Wednesday, making it the latest company to ditch the... -
US government orders, Homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work
Dec 28, 2016News Hour: There is a huge market in the US for homeopathic remedies. In 2007 alone, it was estimated Americans spent more than $3bn on a controversial system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel... -
Novartis bolsters ophthalmology pipeline through acquisition of Encore Vision, Inc.
Dec 26, 2016News Hour: Novartis is the leading ophthalmology company, with therapies that treat both front and back of the eye conditions, including retina diseases, glaucoma, dry eye and other external eye diseases. In 2016, Novartis combined its... -
ESMO holds second successful Asia Congress in Singapore
Dec 26, 2016News Hour: The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organization for medical oncology, has successfully concluded the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress in Singapore. ESMO Asia 2016 is a platform for the presentation and... -
U.S. FDA approves Biogen’s SPINRAZA™, the first treatment for spinal muscular atrophy
Dec 24, 2016News Hour: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Biogen’s SPINRAZA™ (nusinersen) under Priority Review for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in pediatric and adult patients. SPINRAZA is the first and only treatment approved... -
Angola declared the end of the world’s worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation
Dec 23, 2016News Hour: Angola declared the end of the world’s worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation on Friday after a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign of 25 million people that resulted in no new cases in six months.... -
Japan began killing about 122,000 farm birds to contain outbreak of highly contagious strain of avian flu
Dec 20, 2016News Hour: Japan began killing about 122,000 farm birds on Tuesday to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said. It is the sixth mass cull this winter, with nearly a...