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U.S. FDA to temporarily allow distribution of anti-smoking pill with some impurities
(Reuters) - The U.S. drug regulator said on Friday it will temporarily allow manufacturers to distribute versions of Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug Chantix with elevated levels of an impurity that may...
Jul 16, 2021
FDA investigating how a known carcinogen wound up in J&J sunscreen
By Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating how a cancer-causing chemical ended up in Johnson & Johnson sunscreens, after the compan...
Jul 16, 2021
Smaller, glitzy amfAR gala for AIDS research back at Cannes
ANTIBES, France (Reuters) - Hollywood A-listers, music stars and fashion models mingled at the amfAR charity gala on the French Riviera on Friday, as the swanky dinner and auction returned to the side...
Jul 16, 2021
UK to keep quarantine rules for travellers from France
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday that it was scrapping a planned easing of coronavirus rules for travellers from France, which had been due to take effect on Monday, because...
Jul 16, 2021
Senator asks airlines about worker shortages after billions in U.S. bailouts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee asked the chief executives of six airlines including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways a...
Jul 16, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 vaccine doses going to Ukraine, Bangladesh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States sent 2 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine via the COVAX international vaccine-sharing program on Friday, a White House official said, and p...
Jul 16, 2021
Transgender woman in Cameroon describes ‘hell’ of five months in prison
DOUALA (Reuters) - The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were "hell", one of them told Reuters on Friday after they were released, describing how they were initially f...
Jul 16, 2021
Biden digs in on U.S. public lands nominee as Republican opposition mounts
(Reuters) - The White House on Friday backed President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the nation's public lands bureau, pushing back against growing calls to withdraw the nomination from key Republican l...
Jul 16, 2021
Doping-WADA ask German broadcaster to share doping sabotage evidence
(Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday it would ask German broadcaster ARD to share any evidence detailed in a documentary looking into possible doping sabotage where banned su...
Jul 16, 2021
U.S. judge rules DACA program illegal, suspends new applications
By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from depo...
Jul 16, 2021
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