Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. FDA approves Travere Therapeutics kidney disorder drug
(Reuters) - Travere Therapeutics said on Friday the U.S. health regulator has granted accelerated approval to its drug to treat a type of chronic kidney disease, called IgAN, in adults with a high ris...
Feb 17, 2023
Bard convinces U.S. appeals court to revive medical-injection device patents
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) - Becton Dickinson's C.R. Bard Inc on Friday won a ruling from a U.S. appeals court reinstating three patents related to its PowerPort devices for delivering repeated medic...
Feb 17, 2023
U.S. to directly warn companies against evading Russia sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will directly warn companies against evading U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine, Deputy Treasury S...
Feb 17, 2023
Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott drops plan to cut Social Security, Medicare
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Rick Scott on Friday revised his plan to end all federal programs after five years to exclude the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, aft...
Feb 17, 2023
U.S. company fined for hiring kids to clean meatpacking plants
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A major food safety sanitation company has paid $1.5 million in penalties for employing more than 100 teenagers in dangerous jobs at meatpacking plants in eight states, ...
Feb 17, 2023
Mississippi shootings leaves six dead in rural county -media reports
(Reuters) - Six people were shot dead on Friday in multiple locations in a rural hamlet in Tate County, Mississippi, and a suspect was in custody, according to media reports, citing the county sheriff...
Feb 17, 2023
U.S. to select 10 costliest drugs for Medicare pricing negotiation
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will select the 10 costliest prescription medicines to Medicare for negotiating prices with drugmakers starting early next year, the prog...
Feb 17, 2023
U.S. and China military ‘unfortunately’ not communicating – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lines of communication between the U.S. and Chinese military are "unfortunately" closed, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. "Unfortunatel...
Feb 17, 2023
U.S. environment agency affirms legal limits to mercury from power plants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reaffirmed the 2012 legal and scientific finding that regulating hazardous air toxics and mercury from power plants is necessa...
Feb 17, 2023
White House defends Ohio train derailment response
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday defended its response to a Feb. 3 derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio caused a fire that sent a cloud of sm...
Feb 17, 2023
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