(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved GlaxoSmithKline’s Shingrix shingles vaccine for use in adults aged 50 and over, a move widely expected after an advisory panel to the agency last month voted unanimously to recommend its approval, the company announced on Friday. Shingrix is seen as an improvement over Zostavax, the only […]
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with diabetes may not always feel classic symptoms like acute chest pain when they have a heart attack, according to a small study that offers a potential explanation for why these episodes are more deadly for diabetics. Researchers examined data from detailed interviews with 39 adults in the […]
Read More By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – It could take a little time for orthotic shoe inserts to help relieve plantar heel pain, but the prefabricated versions sold in drugstores may work just as well as more expensive custom alternatives, a recent study suggests. Plantar heel pain is one of the most common foot ailments, affecting […]
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(Reuters) – Beaten finalists Juventus emerged as the biggest cash winners from last season’s Champions League after securing 110.4 million euros ($130.3 million) in prize money and revenue, European soccer’s governing body (UEFA) said on Friday. Leicester City remarkably edged eventual title-winners Real Madrid, with their run to the quarter-finals earning the club 81.6 million […]
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By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – Paris does not want Asian bike-sharing operators to burst into the city the way Airbnb and Uber did and plans to introduce regulation to ensure an orderly rollout of new bicycle schemes, a top city official told Reuters. Launched just last week, Hong Kong’s Gobee.bike has already spread […]
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(Reuters) – Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is ready to face Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday, three weeks after breaking a rib in a car crash in Amsterdam, manager Pep Guardiola has said. The 29-year-old missed the last three Manchester City games and both of Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers earlier this month following […]
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By Sarah White PARIS (Reuters) – L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics company wants to see more beauty tech like sensory hair brushes that tell you how to care for your hair, and skin patches that let you know how much sun you are getting. So it said on Friday it was launching a program of […]
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(Reuters) – West Ham United’s back-up goalkeeper Adrian could get more chances in the starting line-up and must continue competing with England international Joe Hart, manager Slaven Bilic said. Adrian, who has featured in just two League Cup games this season, believes he has not been given a chance to prove himself but is determined […]
Read More LONDON (Reuters) – A hand-written letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £80,000 ($105,000) at auction on Saturday. The letter, written by first-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson to his mother on embossed Titanic “on-board” stationary, describes his impressions of the palatial […]
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By Zandi Shabalala and Sanjeeban Sarkar LONDON/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Acacia Mining said it could not immediately pay the $300 million that its majority shareholder agreed to hand the government of Tanzania to settle a dispute that has crippled the company’s operations in the east African country. Acacia’s majority owner, Barrick Gold, said on Thursday it […]
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(Reuters) – Three former employees of a former UK division of German logistics and freight company Bertling were sentenced by a London court for bribing an agent of Sonangol, the Angolan state oil group, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said. Joerg Blumberg, Dirk Juergensen and Marc Schweiger were sentenced, fined and disqualified as company directors […]
Read More By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO’s Africa emergencies director, Ibrahima Soce Fall, told reporters in Geneva the organisation was racing to stop both the Madagascar plague and an outbreak of the […]
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