Tag: the-struggling
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Theranos hires executives to lead regulatory and compliance push
(Reuters) – Theranos Inc hired two executives to oversee regulatory, quality and compliance standards, in a bid to turn around the struggling blood-testing company after it received sanctions from U.S. regulators.
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Roche beats forecasts on new drugs and one-off gain
By Ludwig Burger BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) – Switzerland's Roche beat market expectations for adjusted net income in the first six months of the year, helped by cancer drug sales but also inflated by a one-off gain from its pensions scheme. Core earnings per share, adjusted for certain items, rose 7 percent to 7.74 Swiss francs…
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Researchers developing effective chlamydia vaccine
Researchers at McMaster University, Canada, have presented the first promising steps towards a vaccine against chlamydia, a “silent” sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects 113 million people worldwide each year and which can lead to infertility. The research, published in the journal Vaccine, could help protect people all over the world from chlamydia. If left…
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‘Sugar daddies’ and ‘blessers’: A threat to AIDS fight
Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. In South Africa, seven million people live with HIV — and older men are thought to be largely to blame for the shockingly high rate of infections among teenage girls and young women. Age-gap…