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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said prevention and containment of African swine fever is complex and serious, according to a statement released on the ministry’s website on Friday. Han...

(Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s experimental drug anifrolumab failed to meet its main target in a late-stage clinical study treating patients with moderate to severe lupus, the British drugmaker said on Friday. AstraZeneca...

BEIJING (Reuters) – African swine fever has infected 185 pigs on a farm in eastern China’s Anhui province, the country’s fifth case of the deadly disease in less than a month amid growing concerns about the...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it cannot rule out the possibility of new African swine fever outbreaks as concerns grow over the deadly disease’s spread in the world’s...

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Emergent BioSolutions Inc said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Adapt Pharma, beefing up its portfolio with Narcan, the only FDA approved needle-free emergency opioid overdose treatment....

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday declined to approve a drug from Akcea Therapeutics Inc and Ionis Pharmaceuticals that aims to treat a genetic disease that causes fat accumulation in the blood....

By Saumya Joseph and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday U.S. health regulators approved its drug to treat complicated intra-abdominal infections, providing a new option to combat the...

(Reuters) – Esperion Therapeutics Inc said on Monday a combination of its drug, bempedoic acid, taken along with Merck’s Zetia lowered cholesterol level by 35 percent in a late-stage study, sending the...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – A doctor has become the first probable Ebola case in one of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s most violence-ridden and inaccessible zones, a scenario “we have...