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• Doctor's Opioid Prescription Conviction Tossed After Supreme Court Ruling A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a doctor accused of unlawfully prescribing addictive opioids in Arizona and Wyoming after the Supreme Court issued a ruling in his favor that made it harder to prosecute such cases.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2023
• FDA Says India-Made Eye Drop Linked to Some Infections, Blindness and One Death The FDA has warned against using an eye drop made in India that has been linked to the outbreak of a drug-resistant bacteria leading to adverse events in at least 55 patients in the United States including infections, blindness and one death.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2023
• USTR Seeks Public Comment on Restoring Tariffs on Chinese Medical Products The US Trade Representative's Office said on Thursday it is seeking public comment on whether to restore tariffs on 81 Chinese medical product import categories related to the fight against COVID-19.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• India to Spend $79.6 Million to Strengthen Drug Regulatory System India will spend $79.6 million on strengthening its drug regulatory system, the health minister said on Friday, after WHO raised concerns about domestically produced cough syrups being linked to the death of 89 children in two countries.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2023
• US House Plans Vote to End Foreign Air Traveler COVID Vaccine Mandate The US House of Representatives plans to vote next week on a bill that would end a requirement that most foreign air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19, Majority Leader Steve Scalise said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2023
• China's CanSino Confident Its mRNA COVID Vaccine as Good as Moderna, Pfizer Shots CanSino Biologics Chief Executive Yu Xuefeng said on Friday he was confident his company's experimental COVID-19 vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology was as good as shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2023
• In a Health System in Crisis, Britain's Heart Care Suffers In April 2021, Garry Cogan felt a slow, burning pain move steadily higher through his right arm. It was the start of a major heart attack that doctors warned could shave decades off his life without timely triple-bypass surgery.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• BioNTech to Invest $43 Million in German Facility for mRNA Vaccine Building Block BioNTech will invest 40 million euros ($43 million) in a new facility in Germany that will allow it to produce an important building block in mRNA-based drugs, the German pharmaceutical firm said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• Canada Moves to Extend Exclusion of Mental Illness From Assisted Death Canada's federal government on Thursday introduced a law that would exclude people suffering solely from mental illness from pursuing assisted death for an additional year.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• Germany Drops to No. 2 WHO Donor Despite New Pledge for $140 Million Germany will give 130 million euros ($141.87 million) to the World Health Organization this year, its health minister said on Thursday following a meeting with the U.N. health agency's head.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• GSK Gives Few Clues on Plans to Replenish Medicine Cabinet GSK chief executive Emma Walmsley on Wednesday made replenishing the drugmaker's pipeline of vaccines and therapies her number-one priority.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• Draft WHO Pandemic Deal Pushes for Equity to Avoid COVID 'Failure' Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the 'catastrophic failure' during COVID-19, according to an early draft of a global pandemic agreement.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• GoodRx Pays $1.5 Million to Settle Health Privacy Allegations US healthcare firm GoodRx Holdings has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to notify customers that it shared personal health information with Alphabet's Google, Meta's Facebook and others, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 01, 2023
• Mailing Abortion Pills Could Break Law, Republican AGs Tell Pharmacies A group of 20 Republican state attorneys general on Wednesday told Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and CVS Health Corp that they risk running afoul of federal and state law if they dispense the abortion drug mifepristone by mail.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• UK Pharma Body Urges Govt to Scrap Hike in Repayment Rate for Drugmakers UK's pharmaceutical trade body on Thursday called for the government to scrap its plans to raise the repayment rates for drugmakers, to avoid possible setbacks in the sector.
  Reuters Health Information, February 02, 2023
• Pfizer Sees Steep 2023 Fall in COVID Sales, Aims to Bolster Pipeline Pfizer on Tuesday forecast a bigger-than-expected drop in sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment for 2023, intensifying investor concerns over demand for the products as governments cut orders and work through inventories.
  Reuters Health Information, February 01, 2023
• Italy Eases Anti-COVID Measures for Travelers From China Italy will loosen its anti-COVID controls for travelers arriving from China, making swabs random rather than mandatory at its airports.
  Reuters Health Information, January 31, 2023
• South Korea Considers Early Easing of COVID Visa Curbs on Travelers From China South Korea's prime minister suggested on Tuesday that COVID visa restrictions on travellers from China could be lifted earlier than scheduled if infections ease, as the travel and tourism sectors hope for a rebound in visitors.
  Reuters Health Information, January 31, 2023
• FDA Announces Shakeup After Infant Formula Crisis The FDA said on Tuesday it will restructure its food program that was slammed last year for responding too slowly to an outbreak of illness among infants who consumed formula from an Abbott Laboratories production plant.
  Reuters Health Information, January 31, 2023
• US Seeks to Expand Birth Control Coverage Under Obamacare Women whose employers have opted out of covering contraceptives under their health insurance plans on religious grounds would gain no-cost access to birth control under a rule proposed by the Biden administration on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, January 30, 2023