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(Reuters) -AstraZeneca breached the UK pharmaceutical industry’s code of practice after a website claim incorrectly stated that all newly diagnosed asthma patients aged 12 and above should receive its Symbicort drug as an “as-needed” reliever therapy, the industry self-regulatory body ruled on Friday.The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) said the claim did not reflect national guidelines, which recommend that highly symptomatic patients or those with severe exacerbations should instead be prescribed a different treatment involving regular daily dosing plus as-needed use.The drugmaker was found in breach of four clauses of ABPI’s 2024 code, including failing to maintain high…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kay Richards, in her 60s, based in Manassas, Virginia. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider reached out to Amazon for comment, but did not receive one prior to publishing.When my husband and I moved into our home over a decade ago, there were no data centers to be found. It was just an idyllic little neighborhood full of trees. It was our dream place.Today, there are 14 data centers within a mile radius of our home, belonging to various companies.The constant buzzing and smell of what I believe…

By Bhanvi SatijaLONDON (Reuters) -Sanofi reported stronger than expected third-quarter profit on Friday, boosted by demand for blockbuster asthma drug Dupixent, even as the French drugmaker flagged lower vaccination rates partly due to a “negative buzz” around vaccines.Sales of Sanofi’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines dropped 16.8%, hit by pricing pressure in Germany and lower vaccination rates in the early U.S. season. Rates declined globally, in part due to a post-COVID fatigue.”There might be a little bit of negative feeling about vaccines overall,” Sanofi’s chief financial officer François-Xavier Roger said after the results. “A little bit of negative buzz around vaccines.”In…

By Peter Hobson and Renju JoseCANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian scientists have found hundreds of dead seal pups on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic with signs that suggest they were killed by a destructive bird flu that has swept most of the planet, authorities said on Friday.The virulent strain of H5N1 bird flu has spread through wild bird and mammal populations since 2021, killing millions, infecting poultry and dairy farms and even some farmworkers.”At this stage it is not a confirmed detection,” Australia’s agriculture department said in a statement, adding that it would send samples from the dead seals to Australia for…

Roanoke, Virginia — As a 10-year-old, Autumn Bushman loved to perform. The fourth-grade cheerleader from Salem, Virginia, was a bundle of energy.”She really turned my living room into a dance floor,” her mother, Summer Bushman, told CBS News. “She never sat still…She really did care about others more than she cared about herself.”But for the past couple of years, Summer says Autumn was bullied in school over her braces. The abuse also continued after school on her smartphone.On March 21, at the age of 10, Autumn died by suicide at night in her bedroom. Records show she was looking at…

Intel’s third-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations Thursday, results buoyed by a bump in revenue combined with larger cuts, and multiple, sizable investments over the last two months as CEO Lip-Bu Tan looks to turn around the struggling semiconductor giant. Intel’s revenue results and its $4.1 billion in net income provides a far rosier view than its string of quarterly losses. But the company’s recovery story deserves several chapters dedicated to cost cutting via layoffs and other reductions as well as a series of high-profile investments from Softbank, Nvidia, and the U.S. government. Intel added $20 billion to its balance…

CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of elephant seals.”At this stage it is not a confirmed detection … seeing signs consistent with H5 bird flu in wildlife on Heard Island is not unexpected,” the Agriculture Department said in a statement.H5 bird flu has spread widely in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.Australia remains the only…

The prognosis for John Middleton isn’t good.The 43-year-old engineer from Asheville, North Carolina, has a type of bile duct cancer hidden inside his liver called cholangiocarcinoma. It’s rare, diagnosed in about 8,000 people each year in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society.And it’s deadly. The National Cancer Institute says that just 22% of patients live five years after their diagnoses.Middleton has maybe 18 months.“I know we’re not promised tomorrow,” he said, “but I feel like I’m watching a stopwatch that has an expiration on it. It’s very frightening.”His oncologist, Dr. Martin Palmeri of Messino Cancer Center in Asheville,…

It’s that time of year again.The season when flu (influenza), RSV, COVID-19 and other common respiratory illnesses spread further has arrived with the cooler weather. It’s sending many to pharmacy lines and waiting rooms to get up to date on immunizations.The question of vaccine access has been up in the air since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took over federal health agencies earlier this year and replaced every member of the vaccine committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on yearly immunization recommendations.Luckily for Americans whose heads are still spinning from COVID vaccine upheaval, flu shot…

OpenAI announced on Thursday it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the makers of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky. The software product, which had not been released to the public, is designed to work alongside you throughout your day, as you use apps on the computer, writing, planning, coding, and more. Similar to AI browsers, Sky can see what’s on the your screen and take action in your apps for you. The move is a significant step toward embedding OpenAI’s technology into consumers’ everyday lives and within businesses that run on Mac. “We’ve always wanted computers…